scholarly journals Crisis or Transformation? Debates Over Journalistic Work in Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Wilkinson ◽  
Dwayne Winseck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
United States Bureau ◽  
The Public ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Statistics Canada ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
Difficult Times

Background  There is a broad recognition that journalism is facing difficult times in Canada and internationally. Analysis  This article reviews the literature on the state of journalism and then focuses on one element of the perceived crisis of journalism in the Canadian context: claims that the number of employed journalists has fallen sharply in recent years. Using data from Statistics Canada and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, the authors find that, unlike the United States, the number of journalists employed in Canada has risen slightly in absolute terms over the past two decades.Conclusions and implications These findings have important implications for how researchers, politicians and the public think about the state of journalism in Canada and what types of policy prescriptions might be more or less appropriate to deal with the real but not necessarily calamitous changes that are taking place.Contexte  On reconnaît généralement que le journalisme est en train de traverser des moments difficiles tant au Canada qu’au niveau international.Analyse  Cet article passe en revue la littérature sur l’état du journalisme, après quoi il se focalise sur un élément particulier de la crise apparente du journalisme au Canada : l’idée que le nombre de journalistes a chuté depuis quelques années. Au moyen de données provenant de Statistique Canada et du United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, les auteurs constatent que, contrairement à ce qui s’est passé aux États-Unis, le nombre de journalistes au Canada a connu une légère augmentation au cours des deux dernières décennies.Conclusion et implications  Ces données ont des implications importantes sur la manière dont les chercheurs, les politiciens et le public perçoivent l’état du journalisme au Canada et sur les types de politiques qui seraient appropriés pour gérer les changements incontestables mais non calamiteux qui sont en train d’avoir lieu.

easyBLS, a Tool for Querying Nonfatal Injury Information from United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Database

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 955-959
Author(s):  
Rong Huangfu ◽  
Robert Granzow ◽  
Sean Gallagher ◽  
Mark Schall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Line Graph ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Bureau ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
Nonfatal Injury

Every year, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) collects and publishes important information on the number and types of occupational injuries and illnesses affecting workers across all industries. Researchers, occupational safety and health professionals, epidemiologists and industry groups rely on this data to make conclusions about past, present, and future injury and illness trends. The data are also very important in determining the root causes of workplace injury and developing effective interventions. The BLS provides two web tools to query nonfatal injury data from the database. However, one of the tools is no longer functioning, while the other has relatively low query efficiency (more than twenty seconds per query) as tested in this study. Furthermore, there is no data visualization tool provided to help display the queried information. easyBLS (Desktop and web version) was developed to query information from the BLS database with relatively high efficiency (less than one second per query). This tool also provides two data visualization tools (line graph and map) to help users to better interpret the queried information. easyBLS web version is available to the public at http://easybls.pythonanywhere.com/ .

scholarly journals US Unemployment Among Younger Adults And Recommendations To Improve Employment Sustainability

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Orlando Rivero
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Bureau ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Younger Workers ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

The United States unemployment rate continues to be a focal point of discussion. Although in July 2012, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an 8.3% unemployment rate in America, this figure only reflects workers between the ages of 16 and older. With this being said, there is a segment of the population unrepresented within the totality of the United States unemployment rate reported. Younger workers between the ages of 16 to 24 years of age have sustained a much higher unemployment rate as compared to older workers. Unfortunately, 93% of these younger workers do not have a high school diploma and the majority of these workers were supporting families. The purpose of this article is to examine several components of the unemployment rate as it relates to younger workers between the ages of 16 to 24 years of age. Recommendations will be offered in an effort to improve employment sustainability among younger workers, which has been an issue that has been ignored for several years until recently.

scholarly journals Nonrelocatable Occupations at Increased Risk During Pandemics: United States, 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (8) ◽  
pp. 1126-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa G. Baker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Adverse Health Outcomes ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics

Objectives. To characterize which occupations in the United States could likely work from home during a pandemic such as COVID-19. Methods. I merged 2018 US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) national employment and wage data with measures ranking the importance of computer use at work and the importance of working with or performing for the public from the BLS O*NET survey. Results. Approximately 25% (35.6 million) of US workers are employed in occupations (such as technology, administrative, financial, and engineering) that could be done from home; the remaining 75% work in occupations (including health care, manufacturing, retail, and food services) that are challenging to do from home. Conclusions. Most US workers are employed in occupations that cannot be done at home, putting 108.4 million workers at increased risk for adverse health outcomes related to working during a pandemic. These workers tend to be lower paid. The stress experienced by lower-income groups, coupled with job insecurity, could result in a large burden of mental health disorders in the United States in addition to increased cases of COVID-19 from workplace transmission.

War without Citizens

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-38
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Rosow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Advanced Technologies

Contestation over war memorialization can help democratic theory respond to the current attenuation of citizenship in war in liberal democratic states, especially the United States. As war involves more advanced technologies and fewer soldiers, the relation of citizenship to war changes. In this context war memorialization plays a particular role in refiguring the relation. Current practices of remembering and memorializing war in contemporary neoliberal states respond to a dilemma: the state needs to justify and garner support for continual wars while distancing citizenship from participation. The result is a consumer culture of memorialization that seeks to effect a unity of the political community while it fights wars with few citizens and devalues the public. Neoliberal wars fought with few soldiers and an economic logic reveals the vulnerability to otherness that leads to more active and critical democratic citizenship.

Public hearings as an institution of deliberative democracy in major Russian and American cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-83
Author(s):  
Andrey Fursov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
The Russian Federation

Currently, public hearings are one of the most widespread forms of deliberative municipal democracy in Russia. This high level of demand, combined with critique of legal regulations and the practices for bringing this system to reality – justified, in the meantime, by its development (for example, by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and the Public Chambers of the Russian Federation) of proposals for the correction of corresponding elements of the legal code – make both the study of Russian experiences in this sphere and comparative studies of legal regulations and practical usage of public hearings in Russia and abroad extremely relevant. This article is an attempt to make a contribution to this field of scientific study. If the appearance of public hearings in Russia as an institution of Russian municipal law is connected with the passing of the Federal Law of 6 October 2003 No.131-FZ, “On the general organisational principles of local government in the Russian Federation,” then in the United States, this institution has existed since the beginning of the 20th century, with mass adoption beginning in the 1960s. In this time, the United States has accumulated significant practical experience in the use of public hearings and their legal formulation. Both countries are large federal states, with their own regional specifics and diversity, the presence of three levels of public authority and different principles of federalism, which cause differences in the legal regulation of municipal public hearings. For this reason, this article undertakes a comparative legal analysis of Russian and American experiences of legal regulation and practical use of public hearings, on the example of several major municipalities – the cities of Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh and New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. A comparison of laws influencing the public hearing processes in these cities is advisable, given the colossal growth in the role of city centers in the industrial and post-industrial eras. Cities in particular are the primary centers for economic growth, the spread of innovations, progressive public policy and the living environment for the majority of both Russian and American citizens. The cities under research are one of the largest municipalities in the two countries by population, and on such a scale, the problem of involving residents in solving local issues is especially acute. In this context, improving traditional institutions of public participation is a timely challenge for the legislator, and the experiences of these cities are worth describing. The unique Russian context for legal regulations of public hearings involves the combination of overarching federal law and specific municipal decrees that regulate the hearing process. There are usually two municipal acts regulating public hearings on general issues of the city district (charter, budget, etc.) and separately on urban planning. In the United States, the primary regulation of public hearings is assigned to the state and municipality level, with a whole series of corresponding laws and statutes; meanwhile, methodological recommendations play a specific role in the organisation of hearings, which are issued by the state department of a given state. It is proposed that regulating the corresponding relationships at the federal subject level will permit a combination of the best practices of legal administration with local nuances, thereby reinforcing the guarantee of the realization of civil rights to self-government. There are other features in the process of organizing and conducting public hearings in the United States, which, as shown in the article, can be perceived by Russian lawmakers as well in order to create an updated construct of public discussions at the local level.

scholarly journals Cargo Handling By Truckers And Competitive Advantage: Is There A Relationship?

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Jeff Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
Cargo Handling ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Mode Of Transportation ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
New Jobs

The transportation industry is one of the largest employers in the United States. In fact, employment in the transportation industry is expected to increase from 4,205,000 jobs in 2002 to 5,120,000 jobs in 2012, an increase of 914,000 jobs, with truck drivers, including heavy and tractor-trailer drivers adding 337,000 new jobs (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2006 and NAICS Industry Data, 2004). Truck drivers are a valuable and unique resource in today's economy because companies rely on trucks to pick up and deliver merchandise. No other mode of transportation delivers door-to-door. While some goods may travel most of the way by ship, train, or airplane, almost every good is carried by truck at some point en route to its destination. (West, 1-46)

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