Your Labor Day Selections

• Things organized labor pushed to get.
• s. e. smith on labor in general and freelancing in particular:

  Today is also a day when I think of the people who are working on Labour Day—those who keep the vital systems we need moving in motion, like doctors and nurses, bus drivers, firefighters. And those who must work because they have no choice, because they cannot afford the time off and they work for workplaces that don’t observe the holiday; restaurant staff, retail clerks, other service workers for whom the calendar never pauses.
  
  And of freelancers, a growing segment of the working population in the United States. 30% of the population is employed in ‘contingent’ labour, either full or part time, and 55% of those people are women. Working as a freelancer is difficult, and the level of difficulty is often wildly underestimated by people who may see it as romantic or fascinating, but not hard.

• Letter from an angry white guy, but it's not what you think, via Brilliant at Breakfast.
• How governments spend their money, by Dr. Science at Obsidian Wings.  With graphs.
• Where the Polo Grounds used to be.

Talk amongst yourselves.