Through decades of violence, derision, arrests, intimidation, our progressive ancestors never gave into despair and defeatism. We should take their example to heart.
So is this what Obama has in mind for adding jobs? 34,000 of em, to Afghanistan? This isn't what I had in mind when I voted for him last year.
The scale is astounding. One estimate is that at Indians generated at least 383979 metric tons of e-waste in 2007. And by 2011, it will have climbed to over 400,000 tons.
Operating a business on Main Street is a lot different than lecturing at the Harvard Economic Club. The team Obama surrounded himself with has spent way more time in a faculty lounge than in the corner barber shop.
President Obama does not seem to understand seems that the single most important concern for most Americans is the vast and growing national joblessness.
If the Obama administration is unwilling or unable to stop the massive environmental destruction of historic mountain ranges and essential drinking wa...
With the economy still reeling from unemployment at 10.2% , Democrats and progressives are battling a barrage of GOP-driven misinf...
Many fear networking or judge it, thinking that networking is equivalent to brown nosing. Simply put, networking is the art of cultivating mutually beneficial relationships to achieve professional goals.
While financial markets believe the great recession is over, millions of Americans continue to struggle. Unemployment is 10.2 percent and the more in...
Compared with many other government databases, the error rate in the stimulus data isn't all that bad.
We must measure our true economic progress by a different metric: the number of career-track, green jobs that we create for those Americans who need them most.
Weatherization should be the Democrats' dream program. In one fell swoop you create jobs, reduce living expenses, improve national energy security, enhance business profitability and confront global warming.
As long as our economy is structured to pass everything up to a few at the top, stimuli can't work well, and jobs bills can't work well, either. Neither can anything else.
On Wednesday, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, the head of the fourth largest coal company in the nation, said in an interview that “I deny th...
Huffpost political reporter Sam Stein appeared on The Ed Show Wednesday and weighed in on the nation's high unemployment rate and what it could mean f...
If President Obama is serious about helping small businesses, then he should use this week's forum to address the absurd flow of federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms.
The dirty little secret on each side of the Pacific is that both America and China are capable of producing far more than their own consumers are capable of buying. The root of the problem is in domestic inequality.
How do we fix the job problem? We've got to build a new economy on a strong foundation of basic investment in education and training, in 21st century infrastructure, and in research and development -- all of which have got the short end of the stick in the era of tax cut, squander and plunder conservatism. And we've got to insure that the US is a leader in the new green industrial revolution that will be the growth industry of the future.
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.
The cold hard truth for U.S. citizens is we must work to create a sustainable economy. We must set our sights on explosive industries such as alternative energy and health technology.
Brzezinski seems to lack any compassion for the many women who desperately wanted husbands and children, but fate -- not desire -- worked against them.
