For corporate America, the Great Recession is over. For the American work force, it's not. Unfortunately, fixing the job market will take years. Ev...
Each leader needs to come out of the summit able to demonstrate to an anxious public that the relationship between the two countries is advancing the nation's economic interests.
Two years into the Obama administration the architect of the president's economic policy remains resolute that, if the nation simply waits, job growth...
Why would we educate children at public expense from kindergarten through high school and then deny them the ability to pursue higher education? I offer for your consideration a few suggestions for legislation.
The national debt 'n' deficit crisis is a financial maelstrom of unimaginable size and severity. For producers, this can be a valuable guide for deciding where to shoot your films.
The masses, namely the army of retail investors, are starting to get swayed by signs of a peppier economy and rebounding equity prices. But there are still plenty of lurking nightmares out there.
The Great Recession has exposed a major flaw in the American economy beyond risky derivatives: an intellectual elite that now seeks success at the expense of our society -- instead of through it.
What was the most important spiritual lesson of the decade? Vote on that lesson you regard as the most significant, knowing there are perhaps many lessons we might have learned from any of the significant news events of the last decade.
As business owners, we all are trying to hang on for dear life. But how do you keep a grip when your fingers have grown numb?
This story is the first in a series that will examine the myriad consequences of the debt crisis confronting American states and cities. * * * * * ...
As the wealthy bankers are propped up and subsidized by the government, everyday working people who have little as it is are robbed daily -- by their employers. Now is a better time than most to discuss the crisis of wage theft in the United States.
If the Republicans want to govern, let them offer a solution for the unemployed and see what the public thinks then. Just continuing the Bush tax cuts will do nothing to help the economy.
Our political leaders are considering tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans just as unemployment benefits begin to run out for nearly 2 million people. This is immoral.
Even as Congress debates whether to extend emergency unemployment checks for more than six million Americans who are approaching the 99-week limit, so...
The vast American middle and working class can't and won't buy enough to get people back to work. They're still under a huge debt load. The only viable source for domestic demand is government. But it's not doing its part.
This has been a vintage year for overrated things and people. Sure, every year is a vintage for that, but as some people have noted, it's especially f...
North Carolina is stepping up to put its money where its mouth is. It's not counseling clients to spend and build themselves, nor is it lobbying for financial assistance from the state or federal legislatures.
The next time someone tells you about how the middle class needs to tighten its belt to close the budget deficit, remind them of the CEO who just spent $4,000 for a blouse on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
Depending on the radio program, we're either about to become a communist or fascist nation (okay, sometimes both), all because of the suspiciously foreign-looking guy in the White House.
If Main Street takes another shellacking from Wall Street, expect a revolution mounted by Main Street, one that will make the Tea Party's anger seem, in comparison, tepid.
The deficit is now all the rage. Though post-election polls show it's jobs and economic certainty that voters want most, it's the deficit that's getti...
Perhaps after the recent election losses, bloggers will stop viewing elections as the key to challenging corporate power -- and instead focus on creating power in the workplace.
Writers Philip Pullman, Kate Mosse and Will Self have criticised government cuts that could see up to a quarter of librarians lose their jobs over the...
Here's how the recession has rearranged our priorities, awakened our creativity, and reconnected us to the people and things that really matter.
