Public Spending Still Key to Economic Recovery

Mark Weisbrot, 01.06.2010

Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C.

For conservatives to insist that we now rely only on the private sector for economic recovery is a bit like Bernie Madoff starting a new mutual fund from prison with the slogan, "trust me."

NAM Stimulus Investigation Reaches Over One Million Readers

Aaron Glantz, 01.04.2010

Author, The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans

My investigative report showing the by-passing of ethnic businesses in stimulus-funded small business loans has appeared -- or is scheduled to run -- in 29 publications across the country.

Stimulus, Schmimulus -- We Need Jobs to Build a Sustainable Economy

Charlie Cooper, 12.31.2009

social justice advocate

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.

Obama's Choice for 2010

Lincoln Mitchell, 12.30.2009

Harriman Institute, Columbia University

After 2010, the Obama presidency, if history is any guide, will change substantially. It will become reactive, initiate few, if any, major pieces of legislation, and focus more on foreign policy.

Black Businesses Shorted on Stimulus Contracts

Aaron Glantz, 12.23.2009

Author, The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans

This article originally appeared on the website of New America Media. Since President Barack Obama signed his stimulus package into law in February, ...

Edu-entrepreneurs are leading job growth

Tom Vander Ark, 12.23.2009

www.EdReformer.com

The sun set at 4:22pm at latitude 47.3. It will set about a minute later tomorrow. The days are finally getting longer again. We also turned the ...

Under Stimulated: Building Trains and Other Stuff We Need Rather Than What Wall Street Dictates

Joel Epstein, 12.25.2009

Corporate and philanthropic giving and strategic communications professional

I'm making real investment in fast trains that run where people live and want to go my wish for the New Year.

Congress Is Committed to Creating Jobs on Main Street

Rep. Edolphus Towns, 12.22.2009

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.

Stimulus Packages and Prozac: The Unintended Consequences of Intervention

Dr. Peter Breggin, 12.18.2009

Psychiatrist

Artificial interventions by know-it-all psychiatrists with their drugs, or know-it-all politicians with their economic bromides can never improve upon the activities of individual human beings pursuing their interests and their ideals in a free society.

Swinging Senators to Be

Shawn Healy, 12.17.2009

Managing Director and Resident Scholar at the McCormick Freedom Project

Attendees of the Union League Club's Dem Senatorial Forum were treated to candidates largely in agreement, but whose actions show little evidence they have been infected by the holiday spirit.

NAM Investigation: Minority Businesses Shut Out of Stimulus Loans

Aaron Glantz, 12.17.2009

Author, The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans

Loans handed out to struggling small businesses as part of President Barack Obama's stimulus package have largely shut out minority businesses -- espe...

A Holiday Wish List That No One Should Fulfill

Gary Shapiro, 12.17.2009

President & CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association

Here are the "top ten" things our government could do in 2010 to reverse our nascent economic recovery. Of course, it shouldn't do any of these things - but its record causes me grave concern.

Green Jobs Arriving Slowly

David Adkins, 12.15.2009

Executive Director, Council of State Governments

In the first six months following passage of the Recovery Act, just over 13,000 green jobs were created or saved, hardly a silver bullet solution to a 10% unemployment rate.

What's an Underemployed Gal to Do? Run For Office.

Diane Tucker, 12.15.2009

Writer/producer/director living in Washington DC

The experience of running convinced me that women have a tremendous natural ability for politics. We just have to get over our fear of it and go for the brass ring.

Federal Reserve: Are You Listening To Your Own Data?

Eric Lotke, 12.17.2009

Research Director at the Campaign for America's Future and author of 2044

Even if utilization rose to 71.3 percent, more than a quarter of our nation's productive capacity is still lying idle.

To serve the public, face essential truths

Ben Mangan, 12.13.2009

It's easy to poke holes in the work of elected officials and other policy makers. But all these folks will tell you that governing is exponentially ha...

Don't Worry About Global Warming

Alexis C. Jolly, 12.11.2009

Scholar. Gentleman.

All this talk of the potential risk posed by climate change far outweighing the costs of doing something about it is beginning to sound a lot like a cold call from a life insurance company.

Making Job Creation a Priority

Lincoln Mitchell, 12.10.2009

Harriman Institute, Columbia University

If you commissioned an ad firm to come up with a two word description of the economy that would provoke great feelings of anger and resentment, they'd have a tough time coming up with something better than "jobless recovery."

Think Again: Conservatives Turn to CNBC and the WSJ for Stimulating Propaganda

Eric Alterman, 12.10.2009

Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Crossposted with the Center for American Progress. With Mickey Ehrlich Last week the new jobs report showed that the unemployment rate had fallen by...

The President Asks for Help -- From Us

Eric Lotke, 12.09.2009

Research Director at the Campaign for America's Future and author of 2044

Educating the public is partly our job. We need to talk about budgeting responsibly in the long run and kick starting the economy right away. We need to move past the "false choice" between jobs now and growth later.

Weekly Audit: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

The Media Consortium, 12.08.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger President Barack Obama invited leading economic thinkers to a job creation summit on Thursday to help combat...