We can return to full employment by creating jobs that lay the foundation for shared prosperity, or we can wait for the captains of capitalism to rescue us under the same trickle-down paradigm that has failed so spectacularly.
During the coming months, I plan to write a lot about issues affecting women in the business world, from pay disparities to the differences between male and female work styles. But first, I'd like to tell my own story.
How are you going to make sure to stick to the resolutions you make in January? Wouldn't it be great to break the cycle of starting and stopping on your goals?
The Obama stimulus plan included $5 billion to help states cover increasing TANF costs expected with the recession, but only $1 billion has so far come through.
Populism is not so much a political stance (as "conservatism" is, for instance) as it is a political tactic. Meaning it can be used equally well by either side of our current American political divide.
Too-big to fail is now our official policy. Our leaders talk of reining the banks in, but talk is cheap and campaign contributions are always welcomed.
It's incredible how much we don't know when it comes to the investment practices and trends that affect workers' retirement assets and other institutional savings.
We invest our public dollars so we all can participate in the economy. But most job creation has been in male-dominated industries. Neutral decisions about how to create jobs means that women won't have the same opportunities.
If 2009 has proved anything, it's that the bailout of Wall Street didn't trickle down to Main Street. Mortgage delinquencies continue to rise. And people everywhere, it seems, are worried about losing their jobs.
As the year and the decade draw to a close, I'm strangely optimistic. True, there are many reasons for pessimism. But over the past week, I have found reasons to at least be cheerful in popular entertainment.
This article originally appeared on the website of New America Media. Since President Barack Obama signed his stimulus package into law in February, ...
President Obama has been on a pre-holiday media blitz, with radio and TV interviews. This week he spoke to radio personalities Tom Joyner and April Ry...
The U.S. doesn't just need jobs. It needs a new basis for competitiveness and growth in global markets. Carbon management isn't the opposite of growth, but a the perfect platform on which to achieve it.
The downturn has been particularly brutal on the young. This is a social and human calamity. Without jobs, young people don't develop skills or discipline that makes them employable in the future.
Many dread how badly the election is shaping up. Commentators predict double digit Democratic losses in the House and further retreat from the sixty vote threshold in the Senate.
We still have a way to go until job opportunities are abundant, but my colleagues in Congress and I remain committed to creating jobs, especially in the communities hardest hit by the recession.
Working in the auto industry and as an electrician, James seemed to be on top of the world. He accepted an early buyout, took the chance to go back to college, and graduated only to find no opportunities.
Obama's agenda has been broad, but he has not been consumed with the crisis of his time. That crisis is blue collar joblessness. It's always been about jobs. Yet the Democratic leadership seems to have only recently noticed.
The gift this country needs most this holiday season is an economy built on a solid foundation, one that will provide middle class, family-supporting jobs now and into the future.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas morning will have a distinct high-tech edge to it this year. Yes, it's true that retail sales, as predicte...
Not only are we richly rewarding those who wrecked our economy, but also, we have to put up with hundreds of fabrications about how the big banks got us here. Here is my biggest, fattest lies list for 2009.
