Unemployment rising

| October 12, 2009

On the Wall Street TV shows the talking heads agree that “the worst is over” as stock markets recover from the global financial crash. Their conventional wisdom is, now is a good time to get back into the market. Housing prices may be nearing a bottom, and manufacturing and trade are picking up again. The […]

Unemployment, hunger, survival

| August 14, 2009

NWOU has been trying to put a human face, not a statistical face, on the global economic crash, but without much success. Recently we’ve come across more stories about hunger. This is part of the higher unemployment rates we’ve been experiencing in the past months.