While tight budgets present plenty of hardships, they also offer local officials a golden opportunity to rethink the way we run schools and boost productivity and efficiency.
Asif Iqbal | Posted 04.03.2012
Despite our small contribution to global environmental pollution, Pakistan stands as one of the most vulnerable countries to global warming.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011
It was a tough year, but events from 2010 contain the seeds of transformation. None of the following stories is enough on its own to change the momentum, but each story points to a piece of the solution.
bloomberg.com | Angus Whitley and Jacob Greber | Posted 05.25.2011
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The next decade will be as good for investors as the 1990s, said Ken Fisher, the billionaire chief executive officer of Fisher...
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.17.2011
How comfortable are you with uncertainty? If you're like most of us, you probably find it easier to function when things are settled. Here's a quick ...
Barry D. Wood | Posted 05.25.2011
Unemployment in Pontiac, Michigan is at 30 percent. And if housing needs to lead us out of the recession, the hard times will be with us quite a while longer. Welcome to the new normal in manufacturing and housing.
Victor Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
Accepting the new normal for federal appointments, President Obama should boldly use his recess commissioning authority, even while fighting daily for traditional Senate confirmations.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011
Americans are facing a troubling reality. The economic recovery we were promised has not materialized. There's growing talk about a "new normal"--a ne...
Lynn Parramore | Posted 05.25.2011
There's talk these days of the New Normal, but it sounds like a cover for the Old Status Quo. Proponents of this want us to believe it all boils down to what we can afford. Champions of the New Possible know it's more about what we value.
Caroline Dowd-Higgins | Posted 05.25.2011
Years ago before the dawn of the internet and personal computers that were easily accessible, job seekers would pound the proverbial pavement to land ...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.17.2011
As a country, we are pregnant with the lowest common denominator. We now view adaptability as virtue, and the desire to radically transform oneself and the world as insanity.
Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.25.2011
Optimism is an attitude. Overconfidence is an error in calculating statistical probabilities. As you think about the value of being optimistic, I encourage you to make a distinction between optimism and overconfidence.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011
A top Federal Reserve official warned Tuesday that one consequence of the Great Recession will be a "new normal" in which Americans have lower expecta...
Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011
With the persistence of fiscal deterioration and skyscraper high unemployment, Congress must quickly pass urban jobs legislation. Restarting the economy is impossible without restarting its economic engines: cities.
Posted 05.25.2011
Last year, JWT trendspotter Ann Mack predicted a number of words she expected to enter the 2009 lexicon -- and some were more successful than others....
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011
One view of "normal" has come out of the crisis stronger than ever: that "normal" doesn't exist at all, that the belief in market equilibrium has been effectively undermined.
Michael J. Petrilli | Posted 04.19.2012