I'm proud to announce a down payment of over $4 million dollars to start putting Angelenos who dropped out of high school back to work.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
A powerful House Democrat used unusually harsh terms to blast the Obama administration's manipulation of stimulus data Monday night, and demanded an h...
Rinku Sen | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
The Applied Research Center has released a Green Equity Toolkit to help community organizations, public agencies and individuals maximize the shared benefits of green economy jobs.
Christine Schanes | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living
I have found that approximately 25 percent of homeless people are children. Together, women and children make up close to 40 percent of homeless people and are the fastest growing segment.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
China doesn't consider America first or the remainder of the world first. And that's what the USA must do. We need an industrial policy that makes no apologies for putting America and American workers first.
Michael Laracy | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The TANF Emergency Fund is potentially an important resource for states, which get four federal dollars from the fund for each dollar they put up.
Jamie Starr | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver
Once rolled out, the training program could create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, reduce energy costs by $3.5 billion per year, and save 500 million barrels of oil annually.
Paul McRandle | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
With hopes pinned on green jobs being among the first sparks to help kindle a rise in the economy, it's worth taking a look at actual green jobs in U.S. cities.
Scott Paul | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
Some of us warned this day would come. We knew an economic strategy predicated on replacing wage growth with debt and credit to maintain a certain standard of living was doomed to fail.
Christine Schanes | Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact
Two videos published on YouTube - one of which has just been aired on television - show what actual HPRP funding means to people in Detroit, Michigan.
John F. Wasik | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
One glaring subject that Obama avoided in the campaign is how to pay for infrastructure over time and how it will dovetail with an overall strategy to address climate change.
Christine Schanes | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is administering $1.5 billion of its $787 billion stimulus package through the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP).
Andrew Ruben | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
If we've really survived the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression thanks to government intervention, and if health care reform is so integral to fulfilling the American promise, where is Obama's "New Deal"?
Craig Bowron | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
How does a country with perhaps the most innovative health care system in the world produce average health care outcomes? It's simple: much of the innovation hasn't delivered.
Baratunde Thurston | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
I asked Robin, a college classmate of mine, if I could video tape her story, and she proceeded to rattle off five tangible ways her life has been improved by the efforts of our president.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
SBA expects 60 percent of its ARC loans to go into default even though principal payments are not due for 12 months. So save this column to help you remember why you should be outraged.
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
The current boom in private wind financing will only result in another eventual bust without any consideration for the long-term past the stimulus bill.
Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
The Recovery Act is working, and if you're only noticing that things are still bad without noticing that they're getting better, you're looking at the wrong benchmarks.
Jessica Olien | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business
A new banner unfurled across Citibank's window depicts a man with a bowl cut. He is grinning manically. And he's perched atop a unicycle.
Harry Moroz | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
It is not the current recession that has put the fiscal condition of state governments at risk. The primary driver of these fiscal challenges is "the growth in health-related expenditures."
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
For communities of color, 'recovery' can be a vapid term. People of color consistently face rates of unemployment higher than what whites experience in the worst recessions.
Edwin D. Hill | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Manufacturing is moving into a new, energy-efficient stage, but it's in danger of leaving out the American worker altogether without an aggressive approach in Washington to encourage its domestic growth.
Mark Shriver | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Just like Obama is looking for new industries, like green technology, to drive the economic recovery, innovative 21st century solutions can be the force behind revitalized rural education.
Mike Nellis | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Public safety programs have been hit hard both on the local and state levels because of the national recession. But, thanks to the Recovery Act, over 1,000 public safety jobs have been saved.
Harry Moroz | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
The stimulus package worked to make life better for "victims of the recession." What is disappointing is that the programs politicians had the most say in are the most flawed.
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 11.19.2009 | Los Angeles