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An economy that operates 24/7—as ours now does—imposes extraordinary burdens on workers. Two-fifths of all employed Americans work mostly during evenings, nights, weekends, or on rotating shifts outside the traditional 9-to-5 work day. The pervasiveness of nonstandard work schedules has become a significant social phenomenon, with important implications for the health and well-being of workers and their families. In Working in a 24/7 Economy, Harriet Presser looks at the effects of nonstandard work schedules on family functioning and shows how these schedules disrupt marriages and force families to cobble together complex child-care arrangements that should concern us all.
This ultimate has a dramatic impact on how communities function and what take places as to changes in how a city functions.
Shreveporter's - facing a very serious challenge~ The Elections
Today's Political News is quite limited on a local output level: It will take some digging to learn more about who can perform as stated, Each citizen should be of interest as to how it will impact their lives. Because -the outcome "will impact your life" !!! It will impact what and how the city shapes itself in the next 4 yrs. These are very important matters.
If you are a young person 16-18, you will become a legal age adult during the next 4 years, if you are in your early 50's you will become a member of the Senior Citizen Age group within the next 4 years. If you are in your early 20's, you will pursue a path and course of career choices. If you are in your early 30's you will find the ideal of 'family unit and its stability, will become a focus and challenge point.
Now, beyond who spends money, beyond who ride on name recogonition. Do you truly know what the present group of Canididates stand for as it relates to your individual self and the collective of the city and its citizen base?
We can't go backwards and trying to repeat things has never proven to meet the fantasy dreamed up about the past.
It's a NEW Day, Americans faces many new challenges, individuals face uncertainties in ways they were not previouly shaped nor were they laid out with the elements involved in todays reality. Therefore, take time and come to understand the vision of those whom you cast your vote for.
Your Vote counts, but you must be sure of what it counts for. Don't just look at the Mayoral Race, look at the council persons, school board persons, the judges and any other element of system leadership which is on the ballot.
It takes effort to vote with a cohesive understanding of how these various entites work together. If they cannot and don't communicate, then we have a pending disaster.
There is a lot to consider; surely, what is to be considered will impact the perception and ultimately what that perception unfolds as to the reality of communities and the performance as a city.
It's home to many who venture in these postings. Therefore; vote with a concerns about the city you call home and who can be the progressive leader to administer our systems functions and operations.
Limited news articles about canididates and many which are posted do not say much about the actual positions and stands of the canididates. It may take a bit of work, to figure out who is the best options as it relates to the concerns and values you encourage and support.
Every Place is but "Perception and how its factored" - this involves a lot of individualized thinking to adjust what is to be factored in gathering a perception which meets the reality of what will become our future.
As in life with advertising: "Buyer Beware". This is very well true when it comes to trying to based a choice on commercial advertisement for political office.
We as responsible citizens, "MUST DO PERSONAL RESEARCH".. but do so from credible sources, but if you as an individual actually follow the choices and outcomes of actions over a period of time. You will know who is achieving things for the betterment of society, as well as it will be evident who is bought out by lobbyist.
Don't see your vote to Lobbyist, and Don't be hoodwinked to allow lobbyist to buy away the voice of your vote.
This requires work. Often its the type of work we don't care to engage, but we have the capability to do this work with relative ease because of the 'search capabilities" of the internet.
We also have access to Federal, State and Local Information as to how incumbents perform, if they are seeking re-election. As to the new comers, there is information available as well. Be discerning in your research.
Know when advertisements seek to divide or capture you based on:bias, bigotry, racism, smoke and delusion as well as fear and intimidation.
What makes American what it is as a Democracy is "One Person", "One Vote"... that is a very big responsibility.
Because when the choice is made the whole of society has to be considered, because this is where we live, within the mix of all who make up society.
Be careful of those who campaign with an expressed aim to do away with something, because nothing is done away with without replacing it with something else.
In this case: BEWARE of what you don't know, of what may come as a replacement, it may be more colluded than you even know.
Bill rarely stand alone, they are mixed in with many different things, while you may be looking at the surface, and the content may be filled with many things you may not agree with. It may take things away from you, which you are not aware you are loosing.
Don't fight so hard against regulatory measures, if there was no abuse, there would probably not be a need to regulate. But due to the ways of mankind, it is a necessity to have regulatory measures as long as they are for the greater good of society, the protection of health and well-being of the citizen population, as well as protecting us far into the future by acts today that may become harmful in the future.
It's not likely that the average individual will read all that language, nor understand the jargon within the legal wranglings of the composition. But at least pursue to get a general perspective of what it contains as best you can.
May your voting choice be made with civic responsibility as a high concern.
How does these numbers stack up with total voting age people? How many voting age people do we have whom are not registered?
I find it amazing, that in America, after all the turburlence of the early years up until the mid 1960's, people fought hard to have accessibility to vote, even those who fought against others voting, had some nature of political concern as wrongly directed as it was, it still was a concern about voting.
Now in current society, we have the openess for 'ALL" to vote, what is with the people who don't have the drive and concern to register to vote?
and
what is with the people who come from the segment who fought against blacks and women having the right to vote, Why are these groups with so many people who have no concern to vote.
Each family, should by the time their kid is at least 16, talk to them about the responsibility to vote. Actually, this talk should start very early, maybe by the time they are in the 4th grade, when they begin to learn about "Civic's" and what is a social and governmental structure.
HOW DOES SOCIETY STRESS SO MUCH ABOUT A DEGREE, AND IT SEEMS TO MAKE THE SYSTEM LESS OVERALL FUNCTIONAL, THE MORE IT EMPHASIS THE DEGREE, THAN THE ARTISTRY OF TEACHING. Everyone is all too over-eager to tell another what degree they have. but truth and fact shows it has nothing to do with the capability to understand how to build a well rounded educational system and program.
What is with society, we negate to teach these thing on a broad basis. I wonder if the School Teachers fight to improve Civics Education in the School System? I Wonder if the School System Teachers, have interest and concern to speak about how civic's relate to the various other subject the students take.
We don't teach them basic finance, where they understand how money works in society, how a home and personal budget works, we don't teach them how basic saving and investing works. Yet we promote and even graduate financially illiterate students. What an injustic to the students, which ultimately become and injustice to society and community.
I saw recently some parents in one location having to 'fight for kids to have recess". What has happen to the title status degree riding mentality of the Education system, that it has forgotten the value of "Recess". They have forgotten the value of " Physical Education", ( many schools grounds are plain empty and not utilized for youth physical educations".
We have become so rigid we have even lost the sense of value of cultural grooming, " the culture building clubs are gone, some schools the band is gone, and in many schools, they have simply thrown away an active sports program which teaches teamwork.
This generation has gone made with Academia, unitl they have lost the awareness that all these things are a part of what is the educational programming system.
Private schools, seem have not forgotten these things, and place good value on maintaining these things, the students seem more well adjusted and more well rounded.
Why can't public schools re-think the madness they have engaged and re-learn how to become a system that respects the whole of the student as both academia and as person?
All these schools with the fancy names and fancy claims of programming structure, yet none of them are connected with higher institution which specialize in these field. They are just pushing a name and label association, but the true connectivity is missing.
When educators realize it is not about them and their ego, it is about the students and enticing the students to develop and have a passions for learning.
Teachers now come to school looking anykind of way; what happen to professional grooming and professional presentation as a teacher? This lowered standard, show up in the class room and lowered respect for the teacher.
Maybe if the teacher focused on Civic's and the responsibilities within it, they'd self correct and in doing so it may open their minds to all that comes along with the process.
So many blogs that attack so many places, yet in each place what results is people "living their lives"
Take Shreveport, Just how many precepts of Shreveport is there? Well go from community to community and the percept changes as does how its factored for interpertations.
Every place has its wealthy sections and its poor sections. there is no big difference in poor sections across American, and it does not matter if the ethnicity is black, white or others. POVERTY is its own cycle of processes and functions. There is no thing as to which poverty stricken place that has met deterioation due to job loss, missed educational opportunity and deterioated structure and closed business and minimilized city and county/parish services that are available. Poverty is a sickness in this nation, well promoted by the Industrial Complex.
We could stamp out poverty in 25 yrs, just as we could have moved from gasoline cars to electric cars in 25 yrs. But for the system and the Administrators there is profit in poverty. The victims of poverty, become blamed, yet the profiteers from poverty, covertly hide themselves, while they live to high standards on resource targeted for claims to help elevate people from the area of poverty.
The wild cry about public assistance: misses much in the discovery elements of facing the real dynamics involved.
When it comes to public service assistance, that is far different than the media depicts. True numbers bring it at 4:1 up as high as 7:1 in some places, as to Whites utilizing these services more than Blacks.
It's unreasonable, to think that out of 300 plus million people, that 33% could have the impacts the media claims.
In numbers, say there are 190 million whites on public assistance at any given time, and maybe 18 million blacks at any given time. 18 million cannot out consume 190 million.
Then; factor in that the Latino polulation which now has exceed the black populations, so everything in numbers has changed. which brings additional numbers to bear force, but even still, at 30-32 million, cannot out consume 190 million. Therefore, we must get perspective. When politicans seek and claim to cut and erode these benefits, based on biased focus, people may need to truly look broad based, as well as in many professional sectors, to understand who truly profits from and within public service funds expenditure.
It may amaze some to know, how many professional and entrepuneral sectors thrive based on the expenditure functions of public service funds in the generalized respective communities across this nation.
When the Discussion is of Crime:We cannot allow selective amnesia nor selective focus, give us conditional blindness. nor can the over emphasis and de-emphasis the media manipulates, to push false perception and diversionary process to influence actual awareness.
We talk about crime often in society, but in raw numbers across the nation white on white crime exceeds all levels of crime in America, but high focus goes to black on black crime. Its media propoganda, which has existed pre-civil rights,and continues post civil rights. It's the promotion of perceptions.
Each person has to step back and see the broader picture to factor the elements to get some perspective understanding. Unless society does that, the 'bias promotion machine of media and political wrangling" will continue to push delusions and hide the real truths within this nation and its cities.
The old adage, of "divide and conquer" is always at work, until the thinking mind of mankind come to its own rescue and to dispel and develop communicable understanding. Our probelm as a society over-all, we are not yet ready to do that, As we drag so much baggage, and continue to re-pack and re-stuff the baggage on a high frequency, all driven by the drivel of media and political postering.
I saw a recent TV Ad, the Canididate did not even say what he stood for and what he could do for the people, the whole point of his ad was, "Vote for Me, I'm Anti Obama". Now what the heck does that mean and what does it convery, when the matter of individual and their collective and respective community, region and political area, has its unique variables which involve, jobs, local government and local government decisions and how the power players with the money in the region peddle influence and buy up the voice which dictates policy.
People need to be more astute, don't be mis-led by bias and bigotry and silliness, become aware as an individual about your community, its future and what is the local political agenda and who is involved in the process of localized decision making that impacts your everyday living.
Then look at the varying types of community and the varying standards across those communities.
To do so may help each person be a more informed voter, as well as learn better the real make up the communities that make the city.
If and as people can regain their ability to understand "Perception" with an better understanding, then cities can find ways to regain the ability to 'dream in progressive unison"...
One may up and run to where they choose,but what will be found, always is "Life", and its always full of much. There is no Utopia.
Yes...you're right. There is no utopia...but you're also wrong...as that reality does not justify living in a dump if you have options.
Yes...you're right. There is no utopia...but you're also wrong...as that reality does not justify living in a dump if you have options.
I never suggest nor implied anyone should live in a dump...
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