In the last 9 months have likely seen a massive upward shift in the distribution of America's wealth. We have surging stock and bond markets and struggling housing markets.
Even as economists are reaching a consensus that the recession is ending, there seems to almost universal agreement that high rates of unemployment will persist through 2014.
There is no reason to tolerate this degree of misery. We know exactly what to do. The government has the fiscal tools to do it. Start by bailing out state and local governments and spending on infrastructure.
The EPA's delay regarding the amount of alcohol fuel that can be used as a gasoline additive is potentially devastating to America's quest for energy independence and a clean tech economic future.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
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...
Feeling legitimate can be a tricky thing in the work world, especially for writers, freelancers, and - in many professions - women.
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...
By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger President Barack Obama invited leading economic thinkers to a job creation summit on Thursday to help combat...
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.
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.
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.
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 by Leonard Zeskind Unemployment rates tell us some things about how the economy is doing. But aggregat...
While the country has experienced an almost unprecedented economic downturn this year, one of the most effective forms of stimulus has been unemployme...
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.
Solar hot water for pools represents one of the fastest payback options for renewable energy systems.
