Today's Ideas & Actions
November 7, 2009
Our Demand: Create American Jobs
OUR STIMULUS, OUR JOBS
TAKE ACTION A Chinese company stands to produce 2,000 manufacturing jobs in China with the aid of American Recover Act funds? Tell the Energy Department you want stimulus money to fund green energy projects that create American—not Chinese or European—jobs.
» Send a message to Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
GET THE BACKGROUND on our "Create American Jobs" page.
MORE STIMULUS, NOT LESS
ERIC LOTKE: The solution to 10.2 percent unemployment leaps out from the government data: “During this downturn we can rebuild a productive economy for the future.”
» Read: “New Unemployment, Old Solutions” | “Green Shoots: For Whom?”
BUILDING THE NEW ECONOMY
Elected officials and leaders from labor, business and academia came to our Washington conference outlining the industrial and trade policies we need to ensure a broad prosperity based on good American jobs.
» See highlights from the conference.
» Read the Report: Building The New Economy: Where We're Going. How We'll Get There.
» Read articles in the online forum for the conference.
Our Making It In America project is working to revive manufacturing as a key element in the new economy.
Health Care Reform In the House
This week is make or break for many of the things progressives want in health care reform — the public option, affordability, and ultimately health care for all — and the usual suspects are arrayed against the common good.
» Roger Hickey: "Support for the Public Option Keeps Getting Stronger"
» Jacob S. Hacker and Diane Archer: "The House Public Plan: Yes, It's Worth It"
» Bill Scher: "Public Option: This Is How It's Supposed To Work "
» Terrance Heath: "Are You a Pre-Existing Condition?", "Failure Is Their Only Option", "Reclaiming 'We'
» Natasha Chart: "Health Care Reform: The Trillion Dollar Cost of Doing Nothing"
» Monica Sanchez: "Health Insurance Monopolies Are Legal"
One year is too soon to measure a president or assess an administration. But here, in brief, are six propositions on Barack Obama's first year.
Robert Borosage: "Obama's First Year: It Ain't No Crystal Staircase" | » read more
PLUS
» Katrina vanden Heuvel: "Obama, One Year On"
» Jonathan Singer: "Will Obama Be a Democratic Eisenhower?"
» RJ Eskow: "Base to Obama: Come In, Please"
» Tim Fernholz: "One Year Later"
» Eugene Robinson: "A World of Change in 287 Days"
» Deepak Chopra: "Obama's Invisible Victories"
» Cenk Uygur: "Obama: The Central Question of Our Time"
» Mike Lux: "One Year Ago, One Year From Now"
» Orlando Patterson: "A Job Too Big for One Man"
Economist Robert Johnson says progressive activists are going to have to fight more aggressively against the forces on Capitol Hill and the White House who are working on behalf of the financial services industry to block financial reform, , given the kinds of deals now being cut by the Obama White House and some Democrats in Congress.
» See Isaiah J. Poole's interview with Robert Johnson.
PLUS
» Dave Johnson: "Corporate Money In Elections -- What To Expect"
» Robert Johnson and Amy Goodman: "How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill Silenced a Critic"
» Terrance Heath: "From Crash to Meltdown in 80 Years"
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The House Public Plan: Yes, It's Worth It
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New Unemployment, Old Solutions
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Message To Energy Department: U.S. Greenbacks For U.S. Green Jobs
November 6th, 2009
Progressive Breakfast: Hunt For Jobs As Unemployment Breaks 10%
November 6th, 2009
Getting Serious With China -- New Pipe Tariff
November 6th, 2009
CBO Score? Check. Bill Online For 72 Hours? Check. No Excuses To Vote Against House Healthcare Bill.
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Boxer Avoids The Baucus Trap
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The Republican Party Is a Party of ‘NO’
November 5th, 2009
Green Shoots. For Whom?
November 5th, 2009
Our Work: Highlights
The Next Financial Crisis
Our banks have gotten into the habit of needing to be rescued through repeated bailouts. During this crisis, Bernanke — while saving the financial system in the short term — has done nothing to break this long-term pattern; worse, he exacerbated it. As a result, unless real reform happens soon, we face the prospect of another bubble-bust-bailout cycle that will be even more dangerous than the one we’ve just been through.... more »
