Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. November 6, 2009. A run-down of the employment picture.
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. November 5, 2009. Has Obama spent too much political capital on health-care reform, and not enough on keeping families afloat in a flailing economy?
Dean Baker, AlterNet. November 2, 2009. All the projections show that the unemployment rate is likely to continue to rising for the immediate future and remain high for years to come.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Politics. October 29, 2009. I guess Kyl thinks these lazy bastards should just tap into their trust funds. Isn't that what everyone does?
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. October 15, 2009. FDR, when he faced deep and spreading national insecurity, made jobs first -- not last. And so should Obama.
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. October 5, 2009. The federal government should be spending even more than it already is. This is the only way to put Americans back to work. We did it during the Depression. It was called the WPA.
Arun Gupta, AlterNet. September 12, 2009. You can always learn to say "Would you like fries with that?" But who wants to eat made-in-a-factory E. coli burgers, much less sling them?
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. August 27, 2009. Exaggerating the role that water plays in unemployment will do little to improve farm jobs and much to hurt rational water policy in the region.
Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: World. August 10, 2009. Greg Brosnan and Jennifer Szymaszek examine the lasting effects an immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, had on two small villages in Guatemala.
Mark Felsenthal and Alister Bull, Reuters July 21, 2009. Bernanke said supportive policies would be needed for some time to prevent rising unemployment from undercutting recovery.
Dean Baker, The Guardian. July 16, 2009. Politicians and pundits in Washington are either too ignorant, dishonest, or scared to talk about the expenditures that this economy needs.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 10, 2009. Workers laid off early in the downturn are soon to be left without the basic sustenance of an unemployment check.
Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post. July 7, 2009. Several events of the past week should be a wake-up call to the Obama administration. Bottom line: the medicine isn't working.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. July 1, 2009. Studies show that the current economic climate may be eroding months or even years from the lives of those on the bleeding edge of insecurity.
