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Quick Hit: Recommended Reading

Terri Whitehouse March 10th, 2008

Law Student Jill Filipovic has two excellent posts up on Feministe this week, which follow up on that 1 in 99 statistic that was recently reported.

In “America Behind Bars”, Filipovic discusses the economic and social impact of the incarceration rate:

And entire communities depend on prisons for their economic stability. They have disproportionate political power — prison inmates count as residents, meaning that the areas are allocated greater resources that the inmates don’t benefit from and they’re counted in the population of Congressional districts. And inmates, of course, can’t vote — and in many states, they can’t vote once they get out, either.

Piggybacking on that post in “Judicial nominees, prison exploitation and discriminatory country clubs”, Filipovic takes a closer look at the prison-industrial complex and those who profit from it:

…like the private military contractors that the Bush administration pays to do our dirty work in Iraq, private prison employees were long not subject to the same laws that federal and state prison employees are…

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao says American workers are unkempt, impudent, and slothful

Matt Gunterman July 5th, 2007

Hey, Elaine, all’s I’m saying is if you think your job’s impossible, or the people whose interests you’re supposed to be looking out for just aren’t worth the trouble, you can always go elsewhere.

I mean, haven’t you spent pretty much your entire adult life on the public teat, just suckin’ away all the rich taxpayer goodness? Why not try the private sector, where the free market will judge you on your mental agility and actual managerial skills.

Yeah, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, you’re all for competition until it’s your ass that has to compete.

Here’s what Chao told PARADE Magazine:

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“American employees must be punctual, dress appropriately and have good personal hygiene,” says Chao. “They need anger-management and conflict-resolution skills, and they have to be able to accept direction. Too many young people bristle when a supervisor asks them to do something.”

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You call this kempt, Elaine?Do you call this kempt?