Robert Reich: More people are out of work today than were last year, counting everyone too discouraged even to look for work. The number of workers filing new claims for jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level since February. Not counting temporary census workers, a total of only 12,000 net new private and public jobs were created in July -- when 125,000 are needed each month just to keep up with growth in the population of people who want and need to work. Not since the government began to measure the ups and downs of the business cycle has such a deep recession been followed by such anemic job growth. Click here to read more.
While China's manufacturing dominates much of the world's consumer products, this will not likely last forever.
CEOs of our Systemically Dangerous Institutions (SDI's) fail to manage them, because no one is capable of doing it. Like a morbidly obese junk food addict, banks won't even get on a scale.
As the right continues to preach that they are the ones who are on god's side, with the "Ground Zero Mosque, they're behaving in quite the opposite manner.
Congressional deadlock, created by lock-step partisanship, isn't inevitable. There is a better way to govern that characterizes much, if not most, of American history.
How are the literary journals faring amidst the rise of the Internet? Can this venerable American literary institution survive--or even thrive--despite new technologies?
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