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Biko Baker, Jane Hamsher, Naomi Klein & State of the Union
January 25, 2011Barack Obama isn't the only one giving a talk tonight--the League of Young Voters will be bringing together some top thinkers, activists, and artists to have a live conversation streaming on the Web, as well as on Twitter and Facebook. "We have to keep going deeper," notes Biko Baker, the League's executive director, "We have to step up and be a lot stronger on jobs."The F Word: No Solutions at State of the Union
January 25, 2011Obama will deliver his take on the State of the Union tonight and while congress has bickered about bipartisan seating, it doesn't matter where anyone sits because the profiteers who define what’s possible in our politics have already barred any serious solution to what ails us.Erica Payne & Heidi Shierholz: "Competitiveness" and the Economy
January 25, 2011"We have deified businessmen while denigrating government workers," says Erica Payne of the Agenda Project, and there's no better example of that than President Obama appointing GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head a commission on jobs and competitiveness. Heading into the State of the Union speech, Heidi Shierholz stresses that businesses aren't hiring and creating jobs because there is not enough demand--because people are not buying goods or services."Competitiveness", Mental Health in Arizona, and Palestine Papers
January 24, 2011"We have deified businessmen while denigrating government workers," says Erica Payne of the Agenda Project, and there's no better example of that than President Obama appointing GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head a commission on jobs and competitiveness. Heading into the State of the Union speech, Heidi Shierholz stresses that businesses aren't hiring and creating jobs because there is not enough demand--because people are not buying goods or services.The Jobs of Summer: Youth Unemployment
June 18, 2010Students graduating or looking for summer employment in 2010 are facing the worst labor market in at least a generation, according to Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute. Young people are often the last hired and the first fired, and state budget crises have seen cuts to programs from MetroCards for students in New York to after-school programs and academic counseling.Greg Grandin, Youth Unemployment, and Obama's Power
June 17, 2010Latin America is ahead of the curve when it comes to fighting resource-extracting corporations, says NYU professor Greg Grandin. While Obama makes nice with BP CEO Tony Hayward (and Glenn Beck claims that Obama is unfair to Hayward because he's white), Grandin notes, social movements across South and Central America have been fighting the companies that are after their resources for a while now--and dealing with the repercussions; often violent death squads, as well.
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