Here are three contributions to the national brainstorming session on how we can fix the unemployment problem in this country. Creating jobs needs to be job number one.
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Unemployment worsened or stayed the same in most metro areas in October, the Labor Department said Wednesday, as jobs remained scar...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Millions of jobs, even if temporary, must be generated in short order, and the cost of these jobs must be kept low, in order to not increase the deficit unduly.
Robert Guttman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
The Jobs Summit will involve lots of talking and picture-taking to try to make it look as if the administration is actually taking steps to solve the massive unemployment problem. It won't result in a single job.
New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
So it's time for an emergency jobs program. How is a jobs program different from a second stimulus? It's a matter of priorities. The 2009 Obama sti...
Alice O'Connor | Posted 11.27.2009 | Business
The lesson to remember from E. Wight Bakke and his Depression era contemporaries is that a recovery without jobs is no recovery at all.
Jan Kregel | Posted 11.27.2009 | Business
Support of financial institutions is justified because they are too big and interconnected to resolve. Yet, households -- in aggregate bigger and more interconnected -- are being allowed to fail.
Pavlina R. Tcherneva | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
If the U.S. government creates a permanent, voluntary public employment program that offers a living-wage job to anyone willing and able to work in a public service project, unemployment will be addressed directly.
Barbara R. Arnwine | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
Obama is right to note that he must "get the economy as a whole moving to be able to help anybody," but that effort should not be mutually exclusive from assisting those communities disproportionately impacted.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Recently discharged vets are joining the swelling ranks of the country's unemployed. They bring to the job hunt both special skills and training and, often, the terrible traumas and injuries of their military experiences.
Pat Choate | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
President Obama does not seem to understand seems that the single most important concern for most Americans is the vast and growing national joblessness.
Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY and BETSY MCKAY | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
Early signs suggest the number of suicides in the U.S. crept up during the worst recession in decades, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of st...
nytimes.com | JACKIE CALMES and MICHAEL COOPER | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package...
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 11.20.2009 | Denver
DENVER — A shrinking labor force and about 1,000 new jobs have helped put Colorado's latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October at...
Jason Mannino | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
Many fear networking or judge it, thinking that networking is equivalent to brown nosing. Simply put, networking is the art of cultivating mutually beneficial relationships to achieve professional goals.
Jim Carr | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
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.
AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's unemployment rate inched to 9 percent in October from 8.9 in September. State labor department officials say that's t...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Wash...
CNBC | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
US mortgage delinquency rates and the percentage of loans that entered the foreclosure process jumped in the third quarter, with both reaching record ...
Robert Reich | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
The dirty little secret on each side of the Pacific is that both America and China are capable of producing far more than their own consumers are capable of buying. The root of the problem is in domestic inequality.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
How do we fix the job problem? We've got to build a new economy on a strong foundation of basic investment in education and training, in 21st century infrastructure, and in research and development -- all of which have got the short end of the stick in the era of tax cut, squander and plunder conservatism. And we've got to insure that the US is a leader in the new green industrial revolution that will be the growth industry of the future.
William Drayton | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
Double-digit unemployment crosses an undeniable perceptual threshold in the public's mind. When we hit it, the political rhetoric around the climate bill shifted, and the jobs connection was finally made explicit.
New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Germany's jobs miracle hasn't received much attention in this country -- but it's real, it's striking, and it raises serious questions about whether t...
The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legi...
Bradford Kane | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business