Creating the Jobs America Needs

Bob Burnett, 11.20.2009

Berkeley writer, activist, and Quaker

While financial markets believe the great recession is over, millions of Americans continue to struggle. Unemployment is 10.2 percent and the more in...

Obama's Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us to School

Eric Lotke, 11.19.2009

Research Director at the Campaign for America's Future and author of 2044

While Obama posed for photos on the Great Wall and talked about a relationship "at an all-time high," China continues to take our lunch money.

Winning the Clean Energy Race: A New Strategy for American Leadership

Teryn Norris, 11.18.2009

Senior Advisor, Breakthrough Institute

You know the world is changing when the president's first trip to Asia is defined by a new U.S. foreign policy dubbed "strategic reassurance" - convin...

Want to Fight Climate Change? Hire Somebody

William Drayton, 11.17.2009

Chairman, Get America Working!

Double-digit unemployment crosses an undeniable perceptual threshold in the public's mind. When we hit it, the political rhetoric around the climate bill shifted, and the jobs connection was finally made explicit.

Weekly Audit: Saying 'No' to Corporate America

The Media Consortium, 11.17.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger By proposing financial reforms that won't curb Wall Street excess, U.S. policymakers have offered an unaccep...

Why Retrofitting Should be Sexy

Mike Signer, 11.17.2009

Chair, E3 Initiative, Progressive Policy Institute

You've doubtless seen ads recently offering you a $1,500 "stimulus federal tax credit" for 30 percent of the cost of putting in new windows. How the s...

Casting a Wider Net for Green Jobs

Rinku Sen, 11.14.2009

Rinku Sen is Executive Director of Applied Research Center and Publisher of ColorLines.

The Applied Research Center has released a Green Equity Toolkit to help community organizations, public agencies and individuals maximize the shared benefits of green economy jobs.

The Black Middle Class

David Jones, 11.13.2009

President and CEO, Community Service Society of New York

If history is any guide, the recovery in jobs will trail the economic indicators, and the recovery for black workers in higher wage brackets will trail even further.

Finally, Good News on Climate! US Carbon Emissions Drop

Patrick McCully, 11.11.2009

International Rivers, Executive Director

The drop in emissions means that we are already more than halfway to the goal of the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House of Representatives of a 17% cut from 2005 to 2020.

America's Health Care Stupidity

Diane Francis, 11.11.2009

Editor at Large, the National Post

The momentum is there and the Senate may water down health care reform but it will pass some version. This will become one of the most popular and beloved policies since Social Security and Medicare.

Left, Right & Center: The Fort Hood Shooting, Unemployment Rising, GOP Victories, Health Care

Huff Radio, 11.07.2009

We discuss: The Fort Hood tragedy: the shooter's Muslim faith, military education and his work as a psychiatrist treating vets with PTSD. Also, unemployment rises: Do we need a bigger stimulus?

Obama Stimulus Plan Fails Middle Class

Lloyd Chapman, 11.06.2009

Small business advocate

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the national unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in the month of October, its highest point ...

Hell No! We Won't Send Our Tax Dollars to China

Leo W. Gerard, 11.06.2009

President, United Steelworkers International

China doesn't consider America first or the remainder of the world first. And that's what the USA must do. We need an industrial policy that makes no apologies for putting America and American workers first.

Why We Need Even More Stimulus

Robert Reich, 11.08.2009

Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley

Obama must return to Congress for more stimulus spending. Here's how he should sell it.

The Feds Have No Faith in Recovery

Michael Pento, 11.05.2009

Chief Economist for Delta Global Advisors

The cyclical bull market in stocks and positive print on GDP has caused some on Wall Street and in D.C. to claim the recession has ended. A closer look indicates that neither believes its own rhetoric.

Building a Culture of Responsibility

Stephen Balkam, 11.05.2009

Founding CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute

We need to build a Culture of Responsibility online where government, law enforcement, industry, teachers, parents and the kids themselves accept differing yet overlapping areas of responsibility.

The GDP of Stimulus

Garrett Johnson, 11.03.2009

Freelance writer

According to Third Quarter reports, the Great American Recession is over. Are those numbers to be believed? The smart money is skeptical; you should be too.

Health Care Reform is Critically Important, But Getting Americans Back to Work is More So

Robert Reich, 11.02.2009

Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley

The optimist in me says Obama can pivot off a health-care victory and launch some new initiatives that palpably and quickly spur job growth. The realist says there aren't any such initiatives.

ProPublica's Unofficial Guide to Recovery.gov

ProPublica, 11.02.2009

America's largest investigative newsroom

By Michael Grabell, Jennifer LaFleur, Amanda Michel and Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica. When the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package pas...

On National Weatherization Day, a New Bunch of Skilled Denver Workers Pioneer National Green Jobs Movement

Jamie Starr, 10.30.2009

Lawyer, writer, native Colorado ski bum

Once rolled out, the training program could create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, reduce energy costs by $3.5 billion per year, and save 500 million barrels of oil annually.

Ending the Great Recession: It's Going to Take More Than Just Stimulus

David Adkins, 10.30.2009

Executive Director, Council of State Governments

As we debate what government's response should be to combating a still-growing unemployment rate we might want to take a page from our international competitors.