Large public companies may have more resources, but some people feel that these employers are concerned first and foremost with the bottom line...Well, by it's very definition business is concerned "first and foremost" with the bottom line. (In fact, we'd better hope it stays that way, because the alternative is fascism.)
The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal is associated with American City Business Journals, Inc., which reports "Business News from 41 Local Markets & 46 Industries". Similarly, international outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. is a nationally recognized source of employment information.
I don't where you have a valid basis for flippantly dismissing this article as "propaganda".
I don't where you have a valid basis for flippantly dismissing this article as "propaganda".
The article is propaganda.
The whole point of the article is that 67% of callers to a call-in felt it would be more difficult to find a job in 2003. First of all, a call-in poll is, by definition, completely unscientific.
Second of all, the vast majority of those that called in are unemployed. I’m thinking the optimistic outlook might be slightly under-represented in that pool.
We’re coming (a little too slowly) out of a relatively minor economic downturn. Nothing that some impressive tax cuts couldn’t fix.
But this “news” story fits your doom and gloom agenda so perfectly, I can see why you’re so defensive about it.