Results for “Labor Department”

…he post under allegations of bribe-taking. After Rabin had taken on the portfolio himself four 18 months, he had placed Labor’s Uzi Baram there, but only as a temporary arrangement. I didn’t feel I could refuse outright. But I reminded him that under army rules, “as soon as possi...

… example, advisers would not be able to afford to service low-balance retirement accounts. On the other hand, consumer, labor and civil rights groups have pushed for the Rule saying that the current system provides a loophole that lets brokers drain money from retirement accounts...

…ints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that’s the long term. Right now, American Muslims labor under Saudi and other influences, their institutions are extreme, and things are heading in a destructive direction. It’s also distressing to see how non-...

…d of Yudkowsky’s quip in a blog post: “[A]sking about the effect of machine superintelligence on the conventional human labor market is like asking how US—Chinese trade patterns would be affected by the Moon crashing into the Earth. There would indeed be effects, but you’d be mis...

…al growth rates and are adjusted for inflation. 2.83% is the average annual GDP growth rate from 1970 to 2009, per BEA. Labor force growth of 1.53% is the average annual growth rate from 1970 to 2009, per BLS. Hours worked per worker per OECD. Productivity growth of 1.53% is calc...

…pt. And even that message was not principally intended for the Palestinians, I suspect, but for the Americans. Israel’s Labor-led governments had always calculated that we needed at least some measure of support from foreign allies, especially the US. Under Begin, we'd already bo...

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…ming personally well off. I accepted this. I recognized that I was not just a former kibbutznik. I had been head of the Labor Party. And Prime Minister. Still, I did feel much of the personal criticism was unfair. I had devoted more than four decades of my life to serving my coun...

…t has provoked most of the criticism by Israeli political commentators. Similar criticism is currently being leveled at Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich for stating clearly that she would not join Netanyahu’s next government, but would serve as leader of the opposition. Ther...

…r right to establish their own state.” Begin’s reply was more sensitive than I’d expected from a leader who, through my Labor kibbutnzik eyes, I'd always seen as an extremist, unwaveringly committed to a “greater Israel”. Though he did make it clear his views on the shape of an e...

…r the first time since the state was declared, Israel’s government would not be in the hands of David Ben-Gurion or his Labor Zionist heirs. Our next prime minister would be Menachem Begin, who had inherited the mantle of Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionism. He’d headed its youth wi...

…ithout portfolio when Shamir succeeded Menachem Begin. In the coalition government, he had become Minister of Trade and Labor. Most importantly, when he’d been Agriculture Minister under Begin, he was the driving force in plans to expand Jewish settlement on the West Bank, includ...

…s honorees follow in the trailblazing tradition of past winners ranging from Murray Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 newspape...

…in end Likud’s three decades in opposition, the polls and the pundits were now suggesting that Shimon Peres might bring Labor back to power. There was no prospect he’d win an outright majority in the 120-seat Knesset. No one had ever done that, not even Ben-Gurion in his politica...

…tains. They worked for local Polish landowners, learning the rudiments of how to farm and the rigors of simple physical labor. Late into the evening, they would learn not just about agriculture but Jewish history, the land of Palestine, and how they hoped to put both their new-fo...