America Still Needs Jobs
It was back in late September that I launched my "America Needs Jobs" series for The Huffington Post. Then as now, no issue seemed of more importa...
It was back in late September that I launched my "America Needs Jobs" series for The Huffington Post. Then as now, no issue seemed of more importa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(No. 14 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) WASHINGTON -- The only thing Republican congressional leaders seem to be in the mood for is ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(No. 13 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) WASHINGTON -- Our existing infrastructure is crumbling. In terms of the infrastructure of t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(No. 12 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) Looking ahead fearfully to something that may or may not be a problem decades from now, Pres...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(No. 11 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) "Buy American" -- it's one of the most common suggestions I get from readers emailing me wit...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(No. 10 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) With the Federal Reserve indicating that it's ready to print more money to keep interest rat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(No. 9 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) This jobless "recovery" we are in right now is no accident. That's because corporate fat cat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(No. 8 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) There is, of course, a precedent for the country facing a massive, sustained unemployment cri...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(Part of Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series. Have you missed any of the previous installments? Read the introduction, Idea No. 1: A Payroll T...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(This is Idea No. 6 in Huffington Post's ongoing America Needs Jobs series; see the introduction.) Recessions are brutal on people -- and particularl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(This is Idea No. 5 in Huffington Post's ongoing America Needs Jobs series; see the introduction.) Could one major crisis be solved.... by solving ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(Part of Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series; see the introduction.) There are two age groups that have been particularly devastated by the d...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(Part of Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series; see the introduction.) Let's say you're running a country that's suffering from a terrible jo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(Part of Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series; also see the introduction and Idea No. 1.) State and local governments are the country's larg...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Politically, economically, and morally, there is no issue of more importance in this country right now than jobs. One in 10 American workers is offici...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
(Part of the America Needs Jobs series.) The only reason we still have a payroll tax is because it's been specifically used to fund the two most succ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011