I write today to thank you for your advocacy on behalf of unemployed Americans and to urge you to consider innovative new ways to create jobs and spur economic growth.
I write today to thank you for your advocacy on behalf of unemployed Americans and to urge you to consider innovative new ways to create jobs and spur economic growth.
The biggest obstacle in trying to introduce effective and equitable solutions is Congress; but, banks, corporations, and the wealthy are also in the way.
In August, the Federal Reserve imposed a cap on the fees banks can charge retailers every time customers swipe their debit cards. Why is that important? In addition to banks, consumers may be the biggest losers.
The Tea Party displays the power of a sizable extremist faction to reject bipartisanship and impose its demands at any cost, in this case jeopardizing the nation's credit rating and overall economy, with ominous future implications.
I want to make an essential yet poorly understood point about spending on jobs programs of the type we expect to hear Thursday night. Temporary spending does NOT increase either the long-term deficit or the growth of the national debt.
When you dispassionately review the reality of the U.S. economy, it is a depressing state of affairs that screams out for Americans to get up, stand up and shout: "we can do better than the political and economic elites."
In Thursday's address to Congress, I want President Barack Obama to emphasize that fixing the home-building and construction industries is necessary to jump-start our lame economy.
America has always been a nation that prides itself on rising above adversity and beating the odds. But this Labor Day, more than two years since the end of the most punishing recession since the Great Depression, American families hoping to stay in the middle class are facing long odds.
That government stimulus creates jobs and revitalizes economic growth is accepted as fact by businesspeople, financiers and even Martin Feldstein, Ronald Reagan's chief economist.
Like many of us, Schultz is frustrated and fed up. He is done with partisan politics and useless leaders. He loves our country, still believes in the American Dream, and knows that we are better than this. And he is right.
Today's jobs figures have driven home the severity of the US's employment crisis. The economy essentially created no jobs in August, and unemployment remained painfully high at 9.1%. What's worse, there's little prospect that the government or the Fed will remedy the situation any time soon.
More than a batch of new programs, Americans need a new story about how to regain our economic dynamism. We need a fundamentally new model for economic growth.
America is now on the growing list of advanced countries where social cohesion is coming under increasing pressure. If left to fester through inadequate public and private sector responses, this phenomenon will damage the welfare of current and future generations.
Like the vast majority of Americans, the skilled craft professionals who comprise America's Building Trades Unions enjoy and value our nation's envir...
Labor Day is upon us, that last family cookout or picnic of the summer. So we'd better fire up both the grill and our handy responses to annoying arguments from that brother-in-law with a PhD in Fox TV.
My hair is growing faster than our economy. And I'm bald. But hold on, because September is potentially shaping up to be even more disruptive for my company than August.
The winner of the 2012 presidential election will be the person who comes off as the toughest fighter for average Americans. Earth to Obama: Remember Harry (Give 'em Hell) Truman.
If the CATO Institute sincerely wants to help get our economy back on track and create jobs, they need to support small businesses, federal small business contracting programs, and my campaign to end the diversion of small business contracts to corporate giants.
I suggest a cooperative program, jointly funded by government and business, to train unemployed workers for specific jobs that need filling now.
Our "leaders" -- from the president on down -- should hang their heads in shame for wasting so much time and energy squabbling over the tax rates of the filthy rich and the size of giveaways to multi-national corporations while disaster unfolds before us.
A new survey that looks at American attitudes towards global citizenship underscores the increasing sense of connection people have with international events.