Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. November 6, 2009. A run-down of the employment picture.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 4, 2009. 640,329 jobs were created or saved. But the true significance of this number lies in the people behind it.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. October 15, 2009. FDR, when he faced deep and spreading national insecurity, made jobs first -- not last. And so should Obama.
Mike Lux, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. July 9, 2009. We need a comprehensive policy package that is very simply focused on one thing and one thing only: jobs.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. April 27, 2009. With Barack Obama's election, real reform has once again become politically viable. And America's anti-union business leaders know it.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 25, 2009. Real reform - genuinely humane and tolerant immigration reform - is one that will help lift everyone up.
Matt Wasson, AlterNet. March 30, 2009. Studies show that mountaintop removal mining isn't good for the local economy as the coal industry purports. Here's the facts.
Zac Bissonette, The Daily Beast. March 10, 2009. These days ulcers caused by downsizing aren't just reserved for middle-aged corporate suits two decades into their careers.
Ryan Powers, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 21, 2009. Jindal rejects $90 million in recovery funding that would have benefited 25,000 Louisiana residents.
Cristina Jimenez, DMI Blog AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 9, 2009. In addition to helping the economy bringing undocumented workers out of the shadows will raise wages and labor standards for all workers.
Thomas B. Edsall, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 9, 2009. There is no guarantee that the stimulus legislation will pull the country -- or the global economy -- out of its downward spiral.
Heroesall, Unstuffed AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 8, 2009. Even now, with the world economy swirling down the S-bend, we hear some hardy souls claiming that 'the free market will fix it.'
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 8, 2009. The current recession that the United States economy finds itself in is, by far, dramatically worse than the recessions of 1990-91 and 2001.
