Former Vice President Joseph Biden, in a recent announcement of his economic plan, used the phrase "shovel ready." There are lots of shovel ready jobs in building infrastructure. One might argue that this is a time in which all liberty loving folks should be directed all their/our fire at the Orange Dynast, not at Joe. Still, I have to have a go at this unfortunate phrase. Politicians talk about "shovel ready" jobs because they want to convey the impression that it is easy for public spending to put people to work. "There are jobs to be done, we [the clique making this claim today] know what they are, and some of it is as simple as pointing a new hire to a shovel, then pointing him to the place where the hole needs to be dug." Biden should remember the phrase "shovel ready," because he and former President Obama used that phrase in their own campaigning in 2008. They won. Those public investment jobs turned out to be tricky to create aft...
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No, this doesn't personally concern me. Though I'm always looking to supplement my income, the sending-out-resumes thing? No. Still, I came across this, and it appears the challenges of job seeking are changing in this millennium. One has to worry about resume fonts and something called the ATS. https://www.forwardmotioncareers.com/resume-fonts-and-ats-the-facts/
Greenpeace USA is making the following claim, "The United States now has more people working in the solar industry than in coal mining." This claim is used to bolster the further idea that the U.S. is moving away from carbon-based and earth-extractive sources of energy, i.e. that Greenpeace is on the winning side of history and everyone might as well clamber on board the bandwagon. As for the big claim ... whatever. As for the comparative employment figures from two industries, I'll make two observations here: 1) I haven't looked into it sufficiently to say whether I believe it -- there are different ways of defining who belongs to what "industry" after all, so the question might be complicated. Greenpeace takes its numbers on the coal industry from one source and its numbers for the solar industry from another source, so I have a suspicion that this is an apples-and-oranges thing. 2) Even if true, I'm not sure what it means in term...