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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.
Tom Gregory | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
In a rare glimpse behind the closed-doors of The Federal Reserve, Chairman Ben Bernanke released a snapshot of the economy they have been looking at for months.
Alda Sigmundsdottir | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
1,500 Icelanders will gather in a sports arena in Reykjavík to brainstorm and plan a future vision for our country, and subsequently lay the foundation for the implementation of that vision.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
If Sean Hannity truly wants to be the "great American" he claims to be, he can start by being truthful to his listeners and by not rooting for his supposedly beloved America to fail under the current leadership.
Adele Israel | Posted 11.10.2009 | Denver
Our present economic path is not sustainable. "The Economics of Peace" conference showcased several different roads businesses can travel and still thrive.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Unemployment likely will remain high for the next several years because the economic recovery won't be strong enough to spur robust...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Vice President Joe Biden blasted the "cowboys on Wall Street" Monday, squarely placing blame on the nation's financial center for "an economy built on...
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.
Thomas Croft | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
President Obama: You've helped the bank barons. Now help everyday Americans -- fight to save their homes, help them through hard times, make their lives and that of their families easier.
Harry Moroz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Our politicians are fooling us with legislation that looks like stimulus, but sure doesn't quack like one.
Bloomberg | Shobhana Chandra | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
Orders placed with U.S. factories rose in September for the fifth time in six months, reinforcing signs that manufacturing will drive the economic rec...
Robert Reich | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
The optimist in me says Obama can pivot off a health-care victory and launch some new initiatives that palpably and quickly spur job growth. The realist says there aren't any such initiatives.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Has President Obama done a good job in office, or is he destined to suffer the same fate of Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush, as unmemorable, ineffective one-term chief executives?
Les Leopold | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
We can either prop up the billionaire bailout society as Geithner wants or we can begin the necessary process of breaking it up. You know what the financial interests want.
AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Commercial lender CIT Group Inc. said Friday that billionaire investor and bondholder Carl Icahn agreed to support the company's rest...
AP | MATT APUZZO and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Nearly 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the government said Friday, a...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
I fear the fallout of this year's Great Recession has been forgotten and is now as dusty a memory as that of Black Tuesday, which occurred 80 years ago -- October 29, 1929.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — After a record four straight losing quarters, the economy finally grew again. It was hardly a boom, and it was almost all because o...
Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
The dramatic decline of the U.S. dollar is aiding the American economic recovery but setting off alarm bells overseas, with corporate executives, poli...
Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Losing health care along with one's job is something Americans should not have to cope with at this difficult time. So I have introduced the Extended COBRA Continuation Protection Act of 2009.
Ross Hyzer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Comedy
At first, it looked like the recession was going to be a disaster, but now it's is over, so in the end, all's well that ends well. Right?
Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver
Bloomberg reported Monday that ski resorts across the country are confident that business will improve this season over last year, as skiers see the e...
Jonathan Tisch | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
Where will we end up in a new regulated environment? Jonathan Tisch asks some of those closest to President Obama: Bill Daley, lawyer Marty Lipton and Penny Pritzker.
AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
CHICAGO — More than 80 percent of major companies reporting third-quarter results this month have beaten Wall Street expectations. So is busines...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
Banks' behavior demonstrates that their refusal to act responsibly is endless and that they certainly have not learned their lesson. We need a consumer finance agency to protect credit card holders.
Rinku Sen | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green