The Not-Quite-Unemployed in the Not-Quite-Depression

Part-time workers mask unemployment woes:
In California and a handful of other states, one out of every five people who would like to be working full time is not now doing so.
It is a startling sign of the pain that the Great Recession is inflicting, and it is largely missed by the official, oft-repeated statistics on [...]

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Encyclical Word Cloud

In my previous post, I expressed skepticism about George Weigel’s spin on the emphasis on life issues in Caritas in Veritate. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ web site has a word cloud for the encyclical.

As you can see, “life,” the main framing word for these issues, certainly comes up a lot but isnot nearly [...]

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