President Obama's most enduring political weakness has been his relative difficulty connecting with working class white Americans. He won the Democra...
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.
Instead of saying, "that's wrong!" and organizing a protest march, Elham decided to come up with a solution. That's a distinctly New Radical response: positive, constructive, and hopeful.
What will Obama do in Afghanistan? Without jobs, can Democrats win the next round of elections? And a second look at the Fort Hood massacre.
As President Obama packs for China, I thought I'd show him a picture of how China is manipulating its currency.
I have found that approximately 25 percent of homeless people are children. Together, women and children make up close to 40 percent of homeless people and are the fastest growing segment.
People with jobs are better off than people without jobs. But it turns out that people with jobs are even better off if other people are fully employed too.
By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger For weeks, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) has opposed climate change legislation. In the Environment and Public Wor...
While many proponents of the estate tax argue that it is the most progressive tax in the tax code, the fact is that it produces less than 1 percent of annual federal tax revenue while hurting family businesses.
You've made the decision to go after a goal but fear is holding you back from taking that first step. It's like you're driving with the brake on beca...
We must use the principles of the New Deal, but create something both broader and permanent: a universal job guarantee available through the thick and thin of the business cycle.
One great fear is blocking public support for climate protection: The fear that protecting the planet will destroy millions of jobs. Without a bold p...
It's time for the Obama Administration to make jobs a much higher priority and to strongly back S 3899 as one of the main answers.
There's a growing consensus that one of the best things we can do to enhance our national security is to get off fossil fuels and transition to clean, home-grown energy.
What New Yorkers need, especially those in outer boroughs suffering from the housing crash, is a way to channel investment to make green improvements to their homes and businesses.
Last week, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said, “The green economy is coming. We can either follow or lead.” The senator was explainin...
Standard economic models do show that measures designed to reduce green house gasses by raising energy prices will lead to some cost in terms of slower economic growth. However, scare stories never put it in any context.
There are many obstacles to transition our dependency on traditional fossil fuels to cleaner energy solutions, and Ritter has demonstrated the courage to confront those obstacles.
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Hallelujah! The latest jobs numbers, though pretty darn ugly, are beginning to throw off some hopeful signs.
How many epidemics and Katrinas will it take to expose the myth that the U.S. economy is somehow exempt from the threats of climate change?
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