Marshall Plan

The Second Poorest County in America

Tim Giago | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Native American Reservations, Poverty, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Marshall Plan, Native Americans, Native American Poverty, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, Politics News

There are still those who believe that the 30-year lapse to improve a grave situation rests not only with the federal government, but also with the failed leadership of the Pine Ridge Reservation.

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Could We 'Fix' Detroit With $800 Billion? Let's Try!

Ned Staebler | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Infrastructure Investment, Mass Transit, Urban Policy, Economic Development, Arts Funding, Light Rail, Cities, Detroit, Marshall Plan, Detroit Renewal, Detroit News

The direct financial costs of the Iraq war were estimated to be about $800 billion, with a 'B.' That struck me as a lot of money. I started thinking: "What else could we have done with $800 billion over eight years?"

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Let's Invest in Detroit: A Marshall Plan for America's Cities

Kevin Boyle | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Detroit Budget, Marshall Plan, Detroit Murder Rate, Detroit, Detroit Police Layoffs, Detroit Budget Cuts, Detroit Budget Deficit, Detroit Police, Detroit News

Detroit's about to go broke. Something drastic has to be done. But the answer isn't to slice more deeply into the city's workforce. Or to slash benefits. Or to sell off the street lights. The answer is something genuinely wider and deeper and bolder.

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Needed: A Marshall Plan for America

Ian I. Mitroff | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Marshall Plan, Messes, Thinking Big, Politics News

In a recent op-ed ("The Gap Between the Size of Our Problems and the Narrowness of Our Thinking," Huffington Post, September 12, 2011), I talked about...

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A Domestic Marshall Plan: Forget Going "Big vs. Small," Instead, Go "Simple and Effective"

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: March on Washington, Mortgage Relief, Marshall Plan, Wpa, 4 Million, Guarantees, Obama Jobs Program, Obama Jobs Address, Obama Jobs Bill, Obama Jobs Speech, Obama Jobs Summit, US Jobs, Politics News

Obama should focus on two and only two proposals, and they each must take account of perceived prior failures. They must be guarantees, not incentives that rely on what side of the bed someone gets up on in the morning.

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Help Wanted: Someone - Anyone! - With a Real Plan to Rebuild America

Pearl Korn | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Taxes, Social Security, Debt Ceiling, New Deal, Economy, President Obama, Jobs, Bernie Sanders, Nickel and Dimed, Hunger, Unemployment, Marshall Plan, Bailout, 2012 Election, Tea Party, Elections 2012, Third World America, Politics News

Our "leaders" -- from the president on down -- should hang their heads in shame for wasting so much time and energy squabbling over the tax rates of the filthy rich and the size of giveaways to multi-national corporations while disaster unfolds before us.

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The Dems' Decision to Go the Super PAC Route Is Wrong

Pearl Korn | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Dnc, White House, Russ Feingold, Dscc, Congress, Social Security, America, President Obama, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic Party, Crossroads GPS, Unemployment, Progressives United, Medicare, Tea Party, Paul Ryan, Taxes, Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, Karl Rove, George Soros, House Majority PAC, Centrist, Joe Biden, Citizens United, Democrats, Steny Hoyer, Marshall Plan, Republicrats, Dccc, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Bipartisanship, Medicaid, Republicans, Politics News

Democrats need to give the American people a reason to support their party, and in my mind they can do that by supporting the public financing of elections and passing an amendment canceling out the Citizens United decision.

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Americans Would Doom an American Reconstruction Effort to Failure

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japan Earthquake, Marshall Plan, World, Japan Tsunami, Germany, Income Inequality, New Deal, Economy, Nuclear Power, Reconstruction, Economic Crisis, Health Care Reform, Global Marshall Plan, Japan, Inequality, World News, Politics News

There is no question that the devastation caused by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accidents in Japan, already estimated at $180 billion, will ge...

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A Marshall Plan for the Middle East?

Glenn Hubbard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marshall Plan, Egypt, Middle East, US Aid, World Bank, Glenn Hubbard, Oil, Columbia Business School, Economic Aid, Local Business, Ngo, Infrastructure, Business News

All prosperous countries of the world got that way not through government infrastructure, food aid, or NGO projects, but through the growth of a domestic business sector.

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Republican Congress: Back to the USSR

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Cpac, Conservative Leadership, Tea Party Movement, Progressive Movement, Marshall Plan, Ronald Reagan, Congressional Republicans, Politics News

Republicans claim to value the military, but it appears that many don't actually respect what the military values. If they did, they would be crawling over each other to understand and bolster our non-military, diplomatic security programs.

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An Alternate History of the Energy Crisis

Michael Kanellos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: u.s. Foreign Policy, Energy Efficiency, Automobiles, General Motors, Arab Oil States, Nascar, Mileage, Oil, Iran, Ethanol, Israel, Ford, James Forrestal, Oil Embargo, Communism, Marshall Plan, Green News

What if the United States had been forced to cut down on gas starting in 1948? U.S. auto companies likely wouldn't have become the bumbling boneheads of the industrial world.

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Private Initiative Marshall Plan Launches for the New Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, Long Distance Learning Institute, Mdgs, Luce Group Investments, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Commerce, Jérémie, Iraq, NYU Polytechnic, Cayes-Jacmel, Léogâne, International University of Haiti, Oiww, Belo Water, Liberal Arts, Indonesia, Stewardship Report, Jim Luce, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Social Programs, Social Responsibility, Port-Au-Prince, Global Leadership Institute, Gonaives, Institute for Haitian Stability., Oloffson Hotel, International Film Institute, Integrated Development, Education, Cholera Epidemic, Social Entrepreneurism, Universities of the West Indies, Microfinance, Art Restoration Institute, New York City, Haiti, Vocational Studies, Tsunami, Private Initiative, Marshall Plan, New Haiti, Millennium Development Goals, Haitian Museum of Art, International University, YMCA Léogâne, Luce Group Integrated Development Plan for the New Haiti, Professional Development, Ganthier, Luce Publications, Orphans International Worldwide, Integrated Import-Export, Jacmel, Betaville, Cap-Haïtien, World News

I have been working in Haiti since Christmas 1999. That New Year's Eve I hired my first staff -- my first local partner -- with a handshake at the Ol...

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A New Marshall Plan for a New Generation

Hilary A. Doe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Young Voters, Youth, Marshall Plan, Foreign Affairs, US-Grand-Strategy, Diplomacy, Millennial Generation, Young People, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Like so many problems in public policy today, America's erratic foreign policy is ultimately an issue younger generations will have to solve. Partisan, extreme solutions will not suffice.

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Brad Pitt Leads the Way in Building a Sustainable, Affordable, Energy-Efficient Community in New Orleans

Pearl Korn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Brad Pitt, James Clyburn, Marshall Plan, Brad Pitt's 'Make It Right' Project, Ellen Degeneres, Mike Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Angelina Jolie, Harry Reid, British Petroleum, Hurricane Katrina, Deficit Commission, President Bush, Energy Debates, Politics News

Make It Right Foundation is an extraordinary laboratory for innovation and creative design in building a green-energy, efficient community at affordable prices.

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A Misguided Deficit Commission

Pearl Korn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Small Business, Social Security, John Boehner, This Week, Obama Administration, Deficit Commission, Unemployment, James K. Galbraith, Robert Gates, Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Medicare, Peter G. Peterson, Paul Ryan, Pentagon, George Soros, Volker-Rule, Robert Reich, Afghanistan, Earl Pomery, Tax Relief, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Blackstone Group, Recession, Tom Coburn, Marshall Plan, Warren Buffett, Max Baucus, Judd Gregg, Alan Simpson, Iraq, Glass-Steagall, Politics News

The Obama Administration's Deficit Commission is at best errant in its mission and at worst a bait-and-switch ploy being run on the American people.

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Applause for Chairman Berman's New Foreign Aid Legislation

George Ingram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usaid, Foreign Aid, Congress, Marshall Plan, Millennium Development Goals, President Obama, Foreign-Assistance-Reform, Economic Development, President Kennedy, Howard Berman, Development, Foreign-Assistance-Act, Politics News

Berman recently released a working draft of new legislation authorizing U.S. foreign assistance. This is a major step toward building a 21st century approach for promoting development.

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Aid Reform Within Reach: Time for the President to Lead

George Ingram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usaid, Foreign Aid, Marshall Plan, Millennium Development Goals, Foreign-Assistance-Reform, President Obama, Economic Development, President Kennedy, Howard Berman, Development, Foreign-Assistance-Act, The Green Revolution, Congress, World News

The United States is falling short in getting the most bang for its development buck. Even our best aid projects often fail to maximize the benefits for either effective development or national interests.

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Why Countries Like Haiti Matter to the Well-Being of Everyday Americans

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Degradation, Poverty, Marshall Plan, International Security, Illegal Drugs, Third World, Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Economic Development, International Republican Institute, Immigration, Un, Development, Deforestation, Barack Obama, Breaking News, World News

The world economy is not a zero sum game. For us to be richer, someone else doesn't have to be poorer. In fact just the opposite is true.

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From Narcocracy to Democracy... Can a Marshall Plan Contain Haiti's Global Drug Trade?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Yankees, Washington Wizards, Pentagon, Mlb, Somalia, International Monetary Fund, Imf, Los Angeles Lakers, Monroe Doctrine, Cali Cartel, Haiti Earthquake, Kobe Bryant, Ban Ki-Moon, Nba, Celso Amorim, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Timothy Geithner, Dominican Republic, Bill Clinton, Wal-Mart, Rene Preval, Coast Guard, Alex Rodriguez, Nfl, Brazil, Haiti, Barack Obama, Papa Doc, Minustah, Un Peacekeepers, Marshall Plan, Peyton Manning, Ron Brown, Ben Bernanke, Hillary Clinton, War on Drugs, Cocaine, World News

The IMF has proposed a plan that might help Haiti build a new foundation for nation building. But if this plan is to succeed it will need to contain the global drug trade that dominates Haiti's economy.

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Why We Need a "Marshall Plan" for Haiti

Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Marshall Plan, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Development Aid, Haiti Relief, Natural Disasters, Haiti Earthquake, Marshall Plan, International Monetary Fund, Haiti Relief Efforts, Haiti, Haiti Disaster Relief, Haiti Poverty, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Aid, World News

If we seize this chance, we can help the people of Haiti escape their cycle of poverty and deprivation fueled by merciless natural disasters. The international community owes them a Marshall Plan-magnitude effort.

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Imagine if the Today's Right-Wing Were Around for Nuremberg

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama-Bows-to-Japanese-Emperor, Right Wing Media, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nuremberg Trials, Marshall Plan, Rush Limbaugh, Demagogue, George W. Bush, Bow-Gate, King Abdullah, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Ksm, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News

The right-wing radicals, unanimous in their agreement that KSM should not be tried in the U.S. courts, aren't just crazy, they're un-American. We don't take people out and shoot them without trials.

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A Long Twilight Struggle: America's Role in an Age of Terror

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Muslim, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Marshall Plan, Lawrence Wright, Looming Tower, World War II, World News

Kennedy's phrasing is often used to describe the Cold War with communism, but I think his "twilight struggle" referred to the human condition itself.

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U.S. Fears $53 Billion Spent On Reconstruction In Iraq Will Go To Waste

nytimes.com | TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., Marshall Plan, Iraq War, Gao, Iraq, Reconstruction, Nouri Al Maliki, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq...

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The Annan Plan

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marshall Plan, Africa, President Truman, Central Banks, Kofi Annan, Multilateralism, Soviet Union, World News

A Marshall Plan for Africa would fight and stop the expansion of heartless capitalism in Subsaharan Africa and increase agricultural output beyond pre-independence levels.

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Sachsterly

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, Economics, John Maynard Keynes, Marshall Plan, Microfinance, Bill Easterly, Global Poverty, Dambisa Moyo, World News

The rescue of the bottom billion is only a reality if Mr. Sachs and Mr. Easterly put their outstanding intellectual skills to work instead of trying to win a debate that academics will perpetuate so long as they exist.

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