October 2010
54 posts
Robots Are Stealing American Jobs, According to MIT Economist
Laundry Folding Robot:
Forget the recession, immigration and the mortgage industry collapse — when it comes to loss of American jobs, robots are to blame.
That’s the conclusion of economists who have studied labor statistics and increasing job polarization, a growing disparity in pay among low- and high-skilled jobs. A handful of studies from the spring and summer have picked up steam in recent weeks, and they raise some interesting questions about the economy in the days leading up to Election Day.
Manufacturing is still strong in this country — it’s just that robots, not humans, are the ones manning the factories. If automation is the future of manufacturing, medicine and other fields, less-educated Americans could be left in the dust.
Entire Article:http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-10/robots-are-stealing-american-jobs-economists-say
Judge Orders Injunction Stopping 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' →
nytimes.com
A federal judge ordered the government on Tuesday to stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, ending the military’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’s ruling was widely cheered by gay rights organizations.
Department of Justice attorneys have 60 days to appeal. Legal experts say the department is under no legal obligation to do so and could let Judge Phillips’s ruling stand.
