Yesterday, President Obama convened a job summit to get Americans back to work. In San Francisco, we're already delivering solutions with a public-private partnership that is showing immediate, demonstrable results.
I consider myself one of the luckiest guys around. Today I attended the White House Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth. There were a host of attendee...
In seeking to put unemployed Americans back to work, President Obama needs start first with the micro entrepreneur.
The basic assumption that jobs will eventually return when the economy recovers is probably wrong. Some jobs will come back, of course. But righting the ship will take far-reaching systemic change.
Neither Lincoln nor FDR resolved the enormous challenges that faced the United States during their first months or even years of their administrations, yet they went on to become two of our greatest Presidents.
At one point during the Great Depression, 40,000 union members marched in the streets of Chicago demanding that the government give them jobs. They al...
You want deficit reduction? Then how about a wealth tax of 5 percent a year until the unemployment rate drops below 5 percent? That small tax on just 400 souls would reduce the deficit by about $75 billion a year.
The American debt as a percentage of GDP is at around 100%, which is expected to edge up to 101% in 2011, then begin to drop. However, Japan's debt as a percentage of GDP will go to 230%!
While financial markets believe the great recession is over, millions of Americans continue to struggle. Unemployment is 10.2 percent and the more in...
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.
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...
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.
By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger By proposing financial reforms that won't curb Wall Street excess, U.S. policymakers have offered an unaccep...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 ...
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.
