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Feminomics: Breaking New Ground - Women and the New Deal

David Woolner | Posted 12.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Frances-Perkins, Josephine Roche, Wpa, New Deal 2.0, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Great Depression, Business News
David Woolner

Looking back more than 70 years, we can see that the precedent for making sure that working women benefit from such federal programs as unemployment insurance came from the New Deal.

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Old Mistakes Die Hard

James K. Galbraith | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Barack Obama Financial Crisis, Obama Financial Reform, Bretton Woods II, New Deal 2.0, Bretton Woods System, Business News
James K. Galbraith

I'm tempted to say that the US is plainly unable to cope with the economic crisis in a serious way. So long as economic thinking is mired in a world that disappeared with the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, we're stuck.

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Navigating the Jobs Crisis: 3 Strategies for Real Economic Recovery

Jim Carr | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosure, Unemployment, Federal Deficit, Unemployment Rate, Unemployment-Obama, New Deal 2.0, Recession, Business News
Jim Carr

While there is legitimate concern over the size of the federal deficit, the threat to the economy of continued high levels of unemployment is more urgent. Unemployment is now the leading reason families are losing their homes.

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Time to Try Government as Employer of Last Resort

Marshall Auerback | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Deficit, Roosevelt-Institute, Social Security, Unemployment, Federal Deficit, New Deal 2.0, Herbert Hoover, Business News
Marshall Auerback

The president still seems curiously hamstrung by his Herbert Hoover-like devotion to fiscal rectitude: he wants to spend but not add "one dime to the deficit."

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Unemployment Solution: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours

Dean Baker | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment Benefits, Stimulus Unemployment, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Work Share, New Deal 2.0, Business News
Dean Baker

Imagine if workers in the US, like workers in Germany, were dealing with the recession by putting in four-day weeks (while getting paid for five) or getting an extra two weeks of paid vacation. This sure beats being unemployed.

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Is It Time For Another WPA? Why Government-Created Jobs Aren't The Answer

The New Republic | Zubin Jelveh | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: New Deal, New Deal 2.0, Wpa, Works Progress Administration, Robert Margo, Paul Krugman, Business News

Putting aside the standard concern about central planning, there are some unintended consequences that could come with a modern WPA. This 1990 paper b...

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New Agenda for America: Income Inequality Threatens America's Basic Economic and Political Systems

Bruce Judson | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Bruce Judson, Financial Meltdown, Middle Class Pain, Income Inequality, New Deal 2.0, Business News
Bruce Judson

With each job loss or foreclosure, another family -- now on a downward spiral -- potentially loses its faith in our basic economic system and our basic system of governance.

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"Roosevelt Institute Celebrates A New Agenda for America": Eliot Spitzer, Elizabeth Warren And 13 Others Reflect On The 80-Year Anniversary Of The Stock Market Crash Of 1929

Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, William Black, Unemployment, New Deal 2.0, Rob Johnson, Bruce Judson, Financial Crisis, The Great Crash, Bill Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eliot Spitzer, Recession, 80-Year Anniversary of the Great Crash, Business News

"A New Agenda for America"- On the 80th Anniversary of Great Crash, What Have We Learned and What Lies Ahead? 80 years ago today, on October 29th...

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The New Populism and the New Pecora-Style Commission

Henry Liu | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal 2.0, Pecora Commission, Politics News
Henry Liu

Back in the 1930s, the Great Depression that followed the 1929 market crash had direct political repercussions. In the 1930 mid-term elections, the De...

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Flaws Inherent in the Current Commission, and How to Minimize Them

William K. Black | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, New Deal 2.0, Pecora Commission, Politics News
William K. Black

A commission like the new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission can be unwieldy and political. It cannot be non-partisan, it cannot be unified, and it is extremely difficult to make it effective.

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California Currency? A Taste of Things to Come Unless Percora II Helps Us Leave Discredited Economic Dogma Behind

Marshall Auerback | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Financial Crisis, California, Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal, Pecora Commission, New Deal 2.0, Business News
Marshall Auerback

As California's IOUs signal desperation, Roosevelt Braintruster Marshall Auerback suggests that a Pecora-style Commission could help the public recognize the folly of past economic dogmas.

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New Pecora Commission Will Give Rise to Public Anger...Which Is Why Elites Fear It

Christopher Hayes | Posted 08.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Financial Crisis, Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal, New Deal 2.0, Pecora Commission, Home News
Christopher Hayes

Are suppositions about the complexity of the financial crisis just another way of keeping the real story from public scrutiny? If there's one thing t...

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Full Investigation of Crisis is Vital to Democracy

Jeff Madrick | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Business News, Financial Crisis, Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal, Pecora Commission, New Deal 2.0, Politics News
Jeff Madrick

The only way to to rigorously address the issues in the broken finance system is through a Congressional investigation, since the Obama administration has called for no public accounting.

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Failure To Assess Responsibility For Crisis Means Bad History, Bad Policy And Bad Politics

Daniel Berger | Posted 08.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Business News, Financial Investigation, Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal, Pecora Commission, New Deal 2.0, Home News
Daniel Berger

The time has come to investigate the nature, origins, propagation and effects of the financial crisis.

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How to Create a Successful Pecora Investigation

William K. Black | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Investigation, Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal, Pecora Commission, New Deal 2.0, Business News
William K. Black

The Pecora investigations provided the factual basis that the financial system and political allies were corrupt. They did not divide the nation or divert its response to the economic crisis.

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