Jobs Obama Can Fill Now, Rehiring Consumer Reps At The White House

Jamie Court, 12.08.2009

President, Consumer Watchdog

Every other Democratic president since President Kennedy has hired a Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs. This is a gift Obama should give American consumers for the holidays.

Postage and Other Economic Outrages Against Soldiers

Don McNay, 12.08.2009

Award-winning financial columnist, author, commentator and personal finance guru.

America ships soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq for free. If you come back in a body bag, they ship that back for free, too. However, we make families who send soldiers socks, food and underwear pay shipping costs.

Unemployment, Race and Crimes by White-ists

Leonard Zeskind, 12.07.2009

www.LeonardZeskind.com

Unemployment, Race and Crimes by White-ists by Leonard Zeskind Unemployment rates tell us some things about how the economy is doing. But aggregat...

Weeks Before Deadline, Congress Moves to Extend Unemployment Benefits

Avelino Maestas, 12.07.2009

Community Manager at OpenCongress.org

While the country has experienced an almost unprecedented economic downturn this year, one of the most effective forms of stimulus has been unemployme...

Losing Your Job and Learning What You're Made Of

Mika Brzezinski, 12.07.2009

When you walk out the door after being fired, it's over. No cell phone. No email address. Nothing. Stripped of your link to the outside world. I wore my "fired" label on my forehead, having been dumped by CBS at the height of my career.

Clean Energy Jobs Should Go Swimming

A. Siegel, 12.07.2009

Energy, environmental blogger, getenergysmartnow.com

Solar hot water for pools represents one of the fastest payback options for renewable energy systems.

$200B TARP Money NOT Going To Elin Woods!

Jill Schlesinger, 12.07.2009

Editor-at-Large, CBS MoneyWatch.com

Over the weekend, the government found $200 billion in TARP money and Elin Woods discovered a few more paramours were hanging with husband Tiger...

Coal River Mountain Comes to Town: Copenhagen Summit Video to Charleston Rally

Jeff Biggers, 12.07.2009

Author, forthcoming "Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland"

Note: As Google Earth takes world leaders at the Copenhagen Climate Summit on a virtual flyover of Coal River Mountain today, besieged residents and c...

White House Jobs Summit: Digging Out of Unemployment Cycles

Meizhu Lui, 12.07.2009

Director, Insight Center's Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative

We can get the economy to work and work for all of us, by putting the American people to work. We're shovel ready!

Job Training in a Jobless Recovery

Bob Giloth, 12.08.2009

Author, Blogger, Social Investor -- www.bobgiloth.com

This piece was co-published by Maureen Conway, Deputy Director, the Aspen Institute, and Robert P. Giloth, Vice President, Annie E. Casey Foundation. ...

The True Meaning of 2012

John Perkins, 12.07.2009

Author, Hoodwinked

Next time you pass by 2012 on a theater marquee, try to reflect on the true message symbolized by those numbers. The real message is a call to action based on the knowledge that we can transform ourselves.

Building a Job-Search Brand? Make Us Care

Liz Ryan, 12.07.2009

blogger, soprano, mom, career expert

We need to take the employer's perspective, and come up with a job-search branding message that focuses on how we make our employers' or our clients' businesses thrive.

Young Workers: Hit Hard, Hitting Back

Liz Shuler, 12.07.2009

Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO

As newly elected secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, I traveled the country this fall, talking with workers and hearing their concerns. The economic c...

The Entrepreneurial Teacher

Tabby Biddle, 12.07.2009

Writer

With school budgets shrinking and teachers starting to shell out their own hard-earned money for school supplies, are there other solutions to help keep teachers' bank accounts afloat?

10 Ways to Become a Girl on Top

Nicole Williams, 12.09.2009

Author of "Girl on Top"

Hate her or love her, everyone wants to be her. Here are 10 tactics to achieving your own Girl on Top status.

The Big Chickens Keep Coming Home to Roost

Leo Hindery, Jr., 12.07.2009

Hard-working taxpayers are literally helping finance the sunset of their own jobs. Our government needs to start buying American, bolstering domestic manufacturing, and protecting our intellectual property.

Job Titles: What to Do When No One Has a Clue

Stephanie Pierson and Barbara Harrison, 12.07.2009

Stephanie Pierson is a writer. Barbara Harrison is a direct marketing specialist.

The question remains, while a creative/unusual/incomprehensible title can be a real ice-breaker at networking parties, will it help you get -- or keep -- the job?

Two Common Sense Ways to Improve the Economy

Robert A. Iger, 12.06.2009

President and Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company

Curbing piracy and making it easier to visit our country are straightforward and immediate ways to spur long-term job growth. The decline in foreign visitors has probably cost the country around 245,000 jobs. Piracy has cost another 375,000.

The Aging Population: A Silver Tsunami?

Julia Moulden, 12.04.2009

New Radical: how we earn our living can become the way we give back.

Right now in the developed world, people 80 and over are the fastest growing population group. By 2025, there will be 1.2 billion people over 60 worldwide, the "silver tsunami".

Left, Right & Center: Afghanistan, Unemployment, Tiger, the White House Crashers

Huff Radio, 12.04.2009

President Obama made his long-awaited decision to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan by 30,000. Will it be his undoing?

Friday Talking Points [103] -- Just Do It!

Chris Weigant, 12.06.2009

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

Whether you agree with President Obama's new plan or not, you've got to admit he did a good job of explaining it. And by doing so, he undercut the perennial complaints about American military involvement.