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Heather Boushey: Fiscal Policy Not Just Numbers on the Page
April 14, 2011"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.Heather Boushey, Deborah Small, and Cutting the Future
April 13, 2011"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.Week in Review: Jobs Crisis Needs Structural Solutions
December 12, 2009Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion, Tim Casey of Legal Momentum and author of the report Battered by the Storm, Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress, and Max Fraad Wolff of The New School for Social Research talk about the solutions, short and long-term, for creating jobs, spreading them more equitably through the population, and fixing the structural problems with the economy that led to this recession.Jobs Crisis Needs Structural Solutions
December 9, 2009President Obama spoke today about the need for more government action to spur job creation, saying that small businesses and green jobs were the way forward for the nation. He proposed shifting funds from the TARP program--the much-derided bank bailout--to job creation programs, and offered tax cuts and incentives.Jobs, Thomas Frank, Copenhagen and Honduras
December 8, 2009President Obama spoke today about the need for more government action to spur job creation, but, our guests today note, the problems with unemployment and underemployment in this country aren't just results of this current recession, and they will not be fixed simply by returning to where we were.Is the Gender Gap Growing?
May 14, 2009In this recession, men are losing jobs at a faster rate than women. But women, now the primary breadwinners in many families, still earn 79 cents to every dollar that men earn. For minorities the number is even lower. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “Women, and especially women of color, are more likely to land the worst, lowest paying jobs, without health insurance, paid sick days or paidGRITtv Live at Noon: Is the Gender Gap Growing?
May 13, 2009In this recession, men are losing jobs at a faster rate than women. But women, now the primary breadwinners in many families, still earn 79 cents to every dollar that men earn. For minorities, the number is even lower. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “Women, and especially women of color, are more likely to land the worst, lowest paying jobs, without health insurance, paid sick days or paidThe Unemployed and US Society
April 30, 2009Heather Boushey of the Center For American Progress on the current economic crisis and how mass unemployment will change the way we live.Obama's First 100 Days, A Memoir of Iran, and the Unemployment Crisis
April 29, 2009Walter Mosley, Hendrik Hertzberg and others on Obama's first 100 days. Camelia Entekhabifard discusses her new memoir, Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth. And how will rising unemployment impact American society? Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress on the social dimensions of the financial crisis.
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