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The Jobs Solution

By Leo Hindery Jr. & Donald W. Riegle Jr.
From thenation.com
April 3rd, 2009

thenation.com — Working with those who understand the urgency of creating millions of high-value-added jobs — and the higher family incomes and tax revenues that will follow — the Obama administration and Congress need to "slipstream" behind the bailouts and develop long-term plans to support the renewal of manufacturing.

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HOUSE PASSES BUDGET THAT REPRESENTS HISTORIC CHANGE

By Toby Chaudhuri
April 2, 2009
April 1, 2009

WASHINGTON – Campaign for America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey said that the federal budget passed by President Obama’s allies in the U.S. House marks a major shift from the failed policies that got us into this economic mess.

Feeling Too Down to Rise Up

By Sudhir Venkatesh
From nytimes.com
March 29th, 2009

nytimes.com — The lack of direct action could signal the weakening of a social contract that keeps people meaningfully invested in the fate of our country — which may, in turn, be hindering our ability to resolve this crisis.

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Reinventing America’s Cities: The Time Is Now

By Nicholas Ourousoff
From nytimes.com
March 29th, 2009

nytimes.com — The country has fallen on hard times, but those of us who love cities know we have been living in the dark ages for a while now. We know that turning things around will take more than just pouring money into shovel-ready projects, regardless of how they might boost the economy. Windmills won’t do it either. We long for a bold urban vision.

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He Won't Back Down

By Tim Fernholz
From prospect.org
March 25th, 2009

prospect.org — Last night's briefing showed one thing for sure — the Obama administration isn't afraid of the scale of its ambitions.

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Persistent, Progressive, But no Pitchfork

By David Corn
From motherjones.com
March 25th, 2009

motherjones.com — At the second press conference of his two-month-old presidency, Barack Obama sent a clear signal: I'm an establishment progressive, not an angry populist.

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The Upside of Outrage

By Marty Kaplan
From huffingtonpost.com
March 25th, 2009

huffingtonpost.com — Yes, our apoplexy poses terrible risks. But the opening for real reform that also accompanies it — an opportunity for justice, accountability, solving intractable problems, making essential investments — could turn out to be as game-changing for this era as Vietnam was to another.

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Time To Deliver

By Terrance Heath
March 24, 2009

After a transformational election and at the beginning of a transformational presidency, progressives need to remember: the real transformation hasn’t happened yet. Starting this week, fellow blogger Sara Robinson and I will launch a "blog conversation" about the progressive values at the core of the president's budget, how to talk about it importance, and what progressives can do to pass the first truly progressive budget we've seen in decades. But it's not just a conversation between us. We hope you'll join in.

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Tell Us a Story, Mr. President

By Terence Samuel
From prospect.org
March 22nd, 2009

prospect.org — What we need now is for Obama to tell us what success would look like coming out of this financial crisis.

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Teacher 'Performance Pay' Considered.

From csmonitor.com
March 18th, 2009

csmonitor.com — Performance pay is one of several areas getting attention right now as education reformers zero in on high-quality teaching as the key to helping students learn. The thinking goes like this: It takes good teachers to improve student achievement, and it will take better pay to lure and keep good teachers. Critics, including many unions, point to several issues. It's difficult to determine which teachers are most effective, and it's particularly unfair to tie pay partly to student test scores, the critics say. Also, there's a lack of solid evidence so far that changing the pay structure really improves teaching.

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