Without more revenue-sharing, Glass said, teams like the Royals risk becoming permanent losers, little more than sparring partners for big-market juggernauts.
The number of permanent job losers, up to 2,463,000 from 2,403,000, grew far less than the number of workers who said they were on a temporary layoff, up to 1,183,000 from 1,017,000.
A policy to address these issues and supplement UI for likely permanent job losers is wage-loss insurance (also called wage insurance) which (at least temporarily) subsidizes worker earnings upon reemployment when the wage they receive on their new job is less than that of their old job.
The administration also plans to switch its priority to new applicants, making this year's losers permanent.
The contemporary obsession with individual choice and human agency disregarded even the basic discoveries of late-19th-century sociology: that in any mass society, life chances are unevenly distributed, there are permanent winners and losers, a minority dominates the majority, and the elites are prone to manipulate and deceive.
Even if that's over-egging things, as it might well be, Germany would be among the biggest losers in any permanent East-West standoff.
But failure does not make one a loser, and failure is not permanent.
You see, we do not think our president is leading us into permanent decline, or heading a nation of losers and takers.
The only exception is Farva (Kevin Heffernan), the designated butt of their jokes, a fat loser who has been assigned to permanent desk duty.
