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4 Must-Knows Before Claiming Social Security

4 Must-Knows Before Claiming Social Security

You may be someone who looks forward to the day you retire, or you could be someone who plans on working for as long as possible. No matter which category you fall into, you should do some retirement planning in preparation for this major milestone.

And if you’re eligible for it, your Social Security payments could play a major role in how comfortably you live once you’ve stopped working. Getting the most out of this benefit will involve knowing these four things. Image source: Getty Images. 1. Your FRA

When you take your Social Security determines how much your monthly […]

Covid Brings Automation to the Workplace, Killing Some Jobs

Covid Brings Automation to the Workplace, Killing Some Jobs

Will Knight

Business

06.07.2021 07:00 AM Covid Brings Automation to the Workplace, Killing Some Jobs Unable to find enough workers, employers are turning to technology to perform tasks—and women are likely to be the hardest hit. An Ohio fast-food chain deployed an automated voice system to take orders. Sales rose and the system “never calls in sick,” the CEO says. The AI Database → Application Personal services Human-computer interaction Text analysis End User Big company Small company Startup Sector Consumer services Manufacturing Source Data Speech Technology Natural language processing Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken, a fast-food chain in Ohio, […]

Robots, jobs and the future of work

Robots, jobs and the future of work

Apocalyptic visions of robots stealing workers’ jobs are not only misguided but have diverted attention from more significant trends. Enrique Fernández-Macías There has been a lively debate over the last decade on the ‘ future of work ’—the implications for employment of recent technical change. With few exceptions, it has had a predominantly negative tone. Recent waves of change—computerisation, robotisation and, more recently, artificial intelligence —are often portrayed as impersonal, pervasive, ineluctable forces, which can bring enormous benefits (mostly for consumers) but also major challenges (mostly for workers).

Projected employment losses over the near future are often counted in the […]

Why governments SHOULD pay US- a different take on “universal basic income”

On a fundamental level- the reason we have to pay the government so much in taxes is because it is run by grossly incompetent and corrupt stooges who are profoundly wasteful with money.

One example of infinite: “recycling”: take for one moment to contemplate the huge, HUGE expenditure of time, energy, resources, space allocated to “recycling”. All the low paid grunts who stand around monitoring the centers- their managers, offices, payroll, uniforms…all the processing- sorting, shredding, crushing, melting, shipping… all the resources spent washing millions of cans and bottles, gasoline to drive the materials to recycling centers, time space and […]

I will not accept police state approach to city gatherings

I will not accept police state approach to city gatherings

Rightly corporal punishment was banned from schools. I at no stage of my life here in this country agreed to gardaí patrolling Dublin’s streets with drawn batons.

ovid better not be an excuse for heavy handed policing akin to what we see up North and the excesses of UK policing. People are now criminalised at the end of a pandemic. Yes, a few thugs will always challenge policing. But a few thugs in policing will always challenge society.
Politicians need to take charge of this serious departure in the treatment of Irish citizens. I for one will not accept a […]

The Functional Principle and Impact of Unconditional Basic Income zum Aristoteles Kourtidis

Unconditional Basic Income Is A Dead End – Anke Hassel The Basic Income Initiative, a European organisation seeking one million signatures from EU residents in order to bring the system to ballot, writes: “As a result of current employment patterns and inadequate income maintenance systems conditional, means-tested, not high enough, we regard the introduction of the unconditional basic income essential in order to guarantee fundamental rights Basic Income as a Socialist Project in the form of a generous unconditional basic income, and thus socialism may . not be a necessary condition for significant advance on these principles. But it […]

Latest jobs report reveals post-Covid economy’s long climb

Latest jobs report reveals post-Covid economy's long climb

WASHINGTON — Friday brought some welcome employment news, with the economy adding roughly 560,000 new jobs in May, knocking the unemployment rate below 6 percent. Combined with the latest news about falling Covid-19 cases and increasing numbers of Americans getting vaccinated, many analysts are hoping for an economic boom this summer as a full reopening draws nearer.

But it might not be that simple. There are signs that a broader shift might be remaking the economy in ways that make it harder to see the road ahead.

Let’s start with this week’s job numbers. They were clearly a good sign overall. […]

Bill Kardash: Annapolis council ready to inflate an unsupportable city budget. Tell them to stop. | COMMENTARY

Monday, the City Council will consider fiscal 2022 budget amendments. Most Council members are mulling ideas that add — not cut — operating expenditures.

Then there is Alderman DuJuan Gay, D-Ward 6, who has 30 budget amendments to offer. While he “missed the deadline” for submission, he’ll try for support on Monday.

One “idea” he got from Stockton, California, for “universal basic income,’ would allocate $500,000 to UBI and “give $500 per month each to 50 needy families for a year, with no strings attached”.Typically, “social policy” is separate legislation and not part of a budget document. Apparently, Gay also doesn’t […]

IRA STOLL: The war on work

IRA STOLL: The war on work

President Joe Biden often talks about how his father used to tell him, “Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity.”

It’s ironic, because on Biden’s watch, a war on work is gathering momentum.

“Working Less Is a Matter of Life and Death,” is the headline over a recent New York Times staff editorial. It relies on a newly published study by a World Health Organization and International Labor Organization team that claims working more than 55 hours a week “led to” 745,000 deaths from stroke and heart disease in 2016.Neither the editorial nor […]

Gwynedd Council express interest in Universal Basic Income pilot scheme

Gwynedd Council express interest in Universal Basic Income pilot scheme

Gwynedd Council have expressed interest in working on a Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilot scheme with the Welsh Government.

Under a UBI system, every citizen, regardless of their means, receives regular sums of money for life to cover the basic cost of living. Its proponents argue that it can alleviate poverty and give people time to retrain and adapt to changing workplaces, be more creative and become more active and engaged.

Elin Walker Jones, the Glyder councillor who presented the motion on UBI has said that Gwynedd is the “ideal” area to trial UBI, with a “large rural population” but also […]