William D. Green, 12.09.2009
When real economic growth finally takes hold and unemployment rates fall, it might seem easy to believe that the American workforce can return to business as usual. But positive numbers alone will not be enough to predict future success.
Robert L. Borosage, 12.10.2009
Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future
If you want to get the deficit down, the first priority is to get people working, earning money, paying taxes, and not drawing on government aid.
Art Levine, 12.11.2009
Contributing editor of The Washington Monthly
From reading the headlines Tuesday on President Obama's jobs program, you might think that all the President has to do is to tap into t...
Gavin Newsom, 12.09.2009
Mayor of San Francisco
A pilot program in San Francisco called Art in Storefronts temporarily places original art installations by San Francisco-based artists in storefront windows left vacant by the recession.
Deborah Douglas, 12.10.2009
Chicago-based journalist and professor of journalism
Can you image what TV might look like if it looked like the people who watch it, often in higher proportions than the people being targeted by an overwhelming white, male corps of writers?
Kathryn Wylde, 12.08.2009
President & CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for New York City
MEMORANDUM
TO: New York State Congressional Delegation
FROM: Kathryn S. Wylde
RE: How to make the President's jobs plan work for New York
DATE: Dec...
Delia Lloyd, 12.08.2009
Delia Lloyd is an American writer based in London. Her work has appeared in The International Herald ...
Feeling legitimate can be a tricky thing in the work world, especially for writers, freelancers, and - in many professions - women.
Joel Berg, 12.08.2009
This holiday season we note the sobering reality that more than 49 million Americans live in households that can't afford enough food. Locally, accord...
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...
Mark Green, 12.08.2009
President of Air America Media
As 192 nations meet in Copenhagen on climate change, the Right and Business have seized on some stolen emails to argue against the nearly unanimous scientific judgment that global warming is a real.
Robert Creamer, 12.08.2009
Political organizer, strategist and author
Last month's drop in the unemployment rate is certainly good news. But without additional action, there is little likelihood that the economy will return to anything resembling full employment.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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!
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.
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