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Detroit Shows Big Job Growth In One Sector

Posted 05.09.2012

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Reversing the trend of the previous decade, Detroit has added more manufacturing jobs in the last two years than all but one other metropolitan area i...

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Benefits Of Social Media And Video Games In Classrooms

| Nick Pandolfo | Posted 04.30.2012

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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's Digital blog. Social media, video games, blogs and wikis are playing increasingly importa...

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Luke Johnson

Rubio Calls For Bipartisanship In Foreign Policy Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 04.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) gave a major foreign policy address Wednesday at the Brookings Institution, the prominent liberal think tank, ...

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The Link Between Housing, Education, and Opportunity

Jonathan Rothwell | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Housing Policy, Brookings Institution, Zoning, Housing, Education Policy, Education News
Jonathan Rothwell

Reforming discriminatory zoning laws and taking other steps to promote residential and school integration could have potentially large benefits to the nation's future by making educational opportunity more equal.

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20 Metros Recovering Worst From The Recession

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.28.2012

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In the elusive quest for a sustainable economic recovery, some areas have fared better than others. Only 19 of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan a...

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The Unfathomable Cost of the United States Nuclear Program

William Rose | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Department of Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Budget, Nuclear Power, Start Treaty, Brookings Institution, Deterrence, Poll, World News
William Rose

If you're not terrified by the statistics of military error (and there are plenty of close encounters) you should be in awe of the fact that world leaders will spend $1 trillion in the next 10 years on nuclear weapons.

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Mother America Always Loved Manufacturing Most

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Big Three, Chrysler, Hacker Space, Alexander Hamilton, Jared Bernstein, President Obama, Gm, Wall Street, Rosie the Riveter, Master Lock, Boeing, Abraham Lincoln, Manufacturing, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Brookings Institution, 787 Dreamliner, Barack Obama, Jobs, American Manufacturing, Made in America, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

It's illogical, even unpatriotic to use tax dollars to subsidize companies that send jobs overseas, transferring America's manufacturing power to foreign countries like China.

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Jobs of the Future

Howard Silverman | Posted 04.25.2012

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Howard Silverman

2012-02-24-501 Instead of a report, we developed an illustration. At this unusual time, we need to think expansively not categorically: How do we build long-term well-being for people and place?

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Money for Nothing? TransCanada Blew $1.3 Million on Federal Lobbying for Keystone XL in 2011

Corbin Hiar | Posted 03.27.2012

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Corbin Hiar

TransCanada, the pipeline company pushing the recently rejected Keystone XL project, spent $410,000 on federal lobbying during the last three months of 2011 -- a new quarterly high for the company.

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Brookings Is World's Top Think Tank, Report Shows

| Posted 01.19.2012

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By Ambreen Ali Roll Call Staff The Brookings Institution ranked once again as the world's top think tank in an annual survey out today. The inf...

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Joy Resmovits

American Dream At Stake Before School Starts

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Income Gap, Education, Achievement Gap, Race to the Top, u.s. Department of Education, Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, Early Childhood Education, Head Start, Pre-K, Education Reform, Brookings Institution, Barack Obama, Education News

As states revamp their early childhood education to grab a slice of federal education dollars, some education experts are urging policymakers to look ...

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The Best Cities To Live In Without A Car

24/7 Wall St. | Charles B. Stockdale | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Car Travel, Groceries, Bicycling Magazine, Gas Prices, Census Bureau, Shopping, Walk Score, Walkability, Walk Cities, Public Transit, Brookings Institution, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: Several factors make a city easy to live in without a car. The most important one is a widely available and efficient public trans...

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Peter S. Goodman

'No Hope': Extreme Poverty Leaves Millions In Desolation

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 01.02.2012

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The number of Americans living in communities of extreme poverty -- neighborhoods in which at least 40 percent of the population is poor -- soared by ...

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The 10 Most Impoverished States

Reuters/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.21.2011

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(Lisa Lambert) - The ranks of the poor rose in almost all U.S. states and cities in 2010, despite the end of the longest and deepest economic down...

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Lost Horizons

Patricia McGuire | Posted 12.19.2011

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Patricia McGuire

Racism remains both a prevalent cultural attitude in some places, and a corrosive force stunting the potential of children and communities.

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Occupy the Lives of Children in DC

Patricia McGuire | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Education Policy, Principals, Occupy Dc Protest, Occupy Wall Street, School Reform, Freedom Plaza, Teachers, Schools, Education Reform, Occupy Dc, Child Hunger, #Occupywallstreet, Brookings Institution, Poverty Rate, DC News
Patricia McGuire

Real justice is about service to others, not ourselves. A movement that is only about expressing anger over our own individual hurts will soon disintegrate for lack of an achievable common cause.

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Joy Resmovits

Rate Teachers Together, Not One By One

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Standardized tests should rank students by percentile and rate teachers in teams, according to a new policy brief by Derek Neal, an econ...

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Jason Linkins

Michael O'Hanlon Wants The Media To Write Sunnier Headlines About The Endless War In Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.15.2011

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Brookings Institute senior fellow Michael O'Hanlon provides Politico with a lengthy Afghanistan War lamentation, though it's not the sort of lamentati...

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Poll: Americans Are Tolerant Of Other Faiths, Except Islam

Posted 11.07.2011

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By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Americans consider religious freedom a cornerstone of society, but fall short in their tol...

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10 States With The Largest Job Gaps

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: President Obama Jobs Plan, Jobs Crisis, The Hamilton Project, Unemployment Rate, President Barack Obama, Great Recession, Unemployment Crisis, Jobs, Job Gaps, Brookings Institution, Business News

With the American economy years away from returning to pre-recession employment levels, Friday's news that the country failed to add any jobs at all i...

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10 Cities Where Americans Can't Get To Work

24/7 Wall St. | Charles B. Stockdale | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Vehicles, Unemployment, Low-Income, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Public Transportation, Public Transit, Brookings Institution, Housing Crisis, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: There are over 7.5 million households in the U.S. in which the residents do not own an automobile. Of course, these homes rely on ...

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Economc Turmoil Could Spell Trouble for Innovation

Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Michael Greenstone, Education, Unemployment, Tyler Cowen, Obama Debt Limit, Wall Street Crash, Debt Debate, Debt Limit, Jobs, Hamilton Project, Innovation Economy, Brookings Institution, Joel-Packer, Total Factor Productivity, Business News

While the stock market has plummeted on concerns about the near-term strength of the American economy, the larger issue could be that the long-term pr...

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Getting Back to Basics for Our Nation's Children

Bruce Lesley | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: First Focus, Children's Health Insurance Program, Children, Urban Institute, Eugene Steuerle, Obama Administration, Greenburg Quinlan Rosner, Poll, Child Nutrition, Student Loans, Paul Ryan Budget, Scott Pelley, Education, 60 Minutes, Head Start, Medicaid, Brookings Institution, Children's Health, Education News
Bruce Lesley

By a nearly 3-to-1 margin (58-20%), American voters believe that the lives of children have become worse rather than better over the last ten years, as key indicators of child well-being continue to decline.

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"Green Jobs": A Progress Report

Mark Muro | Posted 09.17.2011

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Mark Muro

The "green jobs" promise is legitimate and compelling, but the scale and pace of the clean economy's present build-out remains more modest than the great expectations that have been placed on them. So where does that leave us?

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Green Jobs Can Bring Home Bigger Paychecks, Report Finds

Posted 09.12.2011

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Unemployment remains high. Fossil fuels are under increased scrutiny. Governments are looking to cut costs. These underwhelming realities have shi...

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