Union of Unemployed

My Recent Activity

Avatar Image
active 1 week, 2 days ago

Kiley Hernandez's Activity RSS Feed

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Still losing the war on unemployment  (3 months, 1 week ago)

    By Mohamed A. El-Erian, Published: February 3

    Mohamed A. El-Erian is chief executive and co-chief investment officer of the investment management firm Pimco and author of “When Markets Collide.”

    The first Friday of every month, you will find me among those eagerly waiting for the release of the latest government data on jobs. Such eagerness, however, [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Made In The U.S.A.  (5 months ago)

    Powered by the Labor [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Paul Ryan’s Office Locks Doors, Bans Cameras, Restricts Parking in Response to Ongoing Sit-in  (8 months, 3 weeks ago)

    Afraid of the protesters he would draw for his plan to slash the social safety net in order to make the rich richer, this month Rep. Paul Ryan cancelled public town halls in favor of events requiring paid tickets. In response, unemployed constituents in Ryan’s district are asking for face-to-face meetings by conducting sit-ins at [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: America Forced to Swallow ‘Satan Sandwich’  (9 months, 1 week ago)

    By Bill Press
    Tribune Media Services
    At his first White House briefing after House passage of the debt-reduction plan, Press Secretary Jay Carney hailed it as a “victory for the American people.”
    He was only half right. It’s a victory, all right. But not for the American people. It’s a victory only for the least intelligent, least well-informed, [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Obama’s ‘Pivot’ To Jobs: The Deja Vu Reel  (9 months, 2 weeks ago)

    Now that the debate over raising the nation’s debt ceiling has been temporarily resolved, the White House has pledged, once again, to “pivot” to jobs.
    If the promise is giving you a sense of déjà vu, you’re not alone.
    To read the rest of the article and view the video click here.

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: More or Less Invisible?  (10 months ago)

    The political elites believe the unemployed DO NOT vote. Like an urban myth, that idea is taking on a life of its own.
    Catherine Rampell, an economics reporter for the New York Times, recently wrote that:

    And with apologies to Karl Marx, the workers of the world, particularly the unemployed, are no longer uniting.
    Nor are they voting [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: The Unemployment Game Show: Are You *Really* Unemployed?  (10 months ago)

    Are you *officially* unemployed? The reported rate actually excludes millions of jobless Americans.  By Mint.com
     

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: 12,500 Facebook Posts: I Need A Job!  (10 months, 1 week ago)

    UCubed Resources now contains a list of United States Senators and Members of Congress who have Facebook pages.
    Please use this Congressional contact list to post a comment on your elected representatives’ Facebook walls.
    I suggest using a message like this: “Help me get back to work. I was laid off ____ months ago. And I desperately need [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Speakout for Good Jobs Now Tour – Pittsburgh  (10 months, 1 week ago)

    Members of Congress Stop in Pittsburgh for the
    “Speakout for Good Jobs Now! Rebuild the American Dream” Tour 
    ProgressiveCongress.org and the Congressional Progressive Caucus
    Host Event to Hear From Middle Class Workers and Unemployed

    More Information at: http://www.SpeakOutTour.com
    WHY: While the debate in Washington is all about deficit reduction, Americans outside the [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Speakout for Good Jobs Now Tour  (10 months, 1 week ago)

    Miami, FL  2p.m.- 4p.m.
    Miami Dade College, North Campus, Lehman Theater in the Arts Complex, 11380 NW 27th Ave. Miami, FL 33167 (click for map)
    Join Representatives Raul Grijalva (AZ-CPC Co-Chair), Keith Ellison (MN-CPC Co-Chair), Frederica Wilson (FL) and Ted Deutch (FL) for your opportunity to share your stories and ideas.
    Text MIA to 228466 to get Miami Event Updates [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Wisconsin, Members of Congress Demand that Washington Pay Attention to Jobs at Speakout  (10 months, 3 weeks ago)

    MILWAUKEE, WI — Reps. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI),  Barbara Lee (D-CA) , and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) attended the Speakout for Good Jobs Now! tour event last night, as hundreds of Wisconsinites lined up to demand that Washington pay attention to the growing movement demanding that they focus on jobs. The Members of Congress [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Swede Dreams  (10 months, 3 weeks ago)

    Sweden is everything America used to be — dominant, arrogant and so much more beautiful — while America has become Sweden’s Mexico.
    Watch the video…

     
    The [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Pawlenty Endorses Union of Unemployed?  (12 months ago)

    Washington, D.C., May 23, 2011 – In his first move as a Republican presidential candidate, Tim Pawlenty came very close to endorsing the Union of Unemployed, nicknamed UCubed. “While not a full-throated endorsement,” explained UCubed Executive Director Rick Sloan, “the former Minnesota governor is whispering our tune.”
    In an internet <span style=”text-decoration: [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez and Peggy Frey are now friends  (1 year ago)

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez and Linda Serafini are now friends  (1 year, 2 months ago)

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: April 4th Solidarity Movement – Be A Part of It  (1 year, 2 months ago)

    Solidarity isn’t passive. It is an active assertion of our right to assemble, our right to free speech, our right to seek a redress of grievances. Exercise your rights and be part of the April 4th Solidarity Movement.
    Check out WE ARE ONE   http://www.we-r-1.org/

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez and Mark A. Adams JD/MBA are now friends  (1 year, 2 months ago)

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Unemployment among veterans highest in five years  (1 year, 3 months ago)

    by Joan McCarter
    Wed Feb 09, 2011 at 07:00:03 AM PST
    Those patriotic House Republicans have yet to introduce a serious jobs bill (they’ve been way too busy fighting the culture war and figuring out how to punish women). Maybe they should take a bit of time out from trying to invent legislative chastity [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez and Deborah B-Skamandros are now friends  (1 year, 3 months ago)

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Bewitched by the Numbers  (1 year, 3 months ago)

    BOB HERBERT
    Published: February 04, 2011
    The data zealots have utterly discombobulated themselves.
    The data zealots have utterly discombobulated themselves. They were expecting something on the order of 150,000 new jobs number, but they were fully prepared to spin it as being pretty good. They thought the official jobless rate might hop up a tick to 9.5 percent.
    Read [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: By the numbers: Long waits, harsh impact of being jobless  (1 year, 3 months ago)

    By Susan Page, USA TODAY
    The jobless have lost more than their jobs.
    In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of unemployed Americans, most of those surveyed have lost any optimism they will find a job soon or end up with work they really want to do. Two-thirds struggle to [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: Underemployed ‘caught in the same bind’  (1 year, 3 months ago)

    By Susan Page, USA TODAY
    They aren’t unemployed, but they face problems nearly as serious.
    The underemployed are those who work part time when they want to work full time.
    A part-time job doesn’t prevent the financial problems that beset the jobless. The underemployed are more likely than the unemployed to say they are cutting [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote a new blog post: It’s Jobs, Stupid — New Poll Restates the Obvious  (1 year, 3 months ago)

    The voters have a clear and dramatic message for the new Republicans in Congress and the President on the eve of his State of the Union Address: focus on jobs and the economy and show how America is going to be economically successful again. This is not a nuanced poll. If Democrats did not get [...]

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote on their own wire:  (1 year, 3 months ago)

    Thanks Bill, the team here does an excellent job at communicating about what is going on.

  • Avatar

    Kiley Hernandez wrote on Todd Shuman’s wire:  (1 year, 3 months ago)

    Welcome to UCubed Todd, good to see you made it here – if I can help any anyway, let me know.