Former Labor Sec. to Class of 2012: You’re F**ked
First, you’re going to have a hell of a hard time finding a job. The job market you’re heading into is still bad. Fewer than half of the graduates from last year’s class have as yet found full-time jobs. Most are still looking.
The Bain of Capitalism
It’s one thing to criticize Mitt Romney for being a businessman with the wrong values. It’s quite another to accuse him and his former company, Bain Capital, of doing bad things.
Prediction: Obama-Clinton Ticket in 2012
Without any inside information whatsoever, I predict that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden would swap placed. Hillary Clinton as Vice President and Joe Biden becoming Secretary of State, a position he’s apparently coveted for years.
It’s Not About Size, Rather Who Does Our Government Serve?
The defining political issue of 2012 won’t be the government’s size. It will be who government is for. Americans have never much liked government. After all, the nation was conceived in a revolution against government. But the surge of cynicism now engulfing America isn’t about government’s size. The cynicism comes from a growing perception that government isn’t working for average people. It’s for big business, Wall Street, and the very rich instead.
Obama’s Major Economic Speech
President Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas – where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in terms of connecting the dots, laying out the reasons why behind our economic and political crises, and asserting a willingness to take on the powerful and the privileged that have gamed the system to their advantage.
Washington, 99 percent On a Collision Course
The biggest question in America these days is how to revive the economy. The biggest question among activists now occupying Wall Street and dozens of other cities is how to strike back against the nation’s almost unprecedented concentration of income, wealth, and political power in the top 1 percent.
What Americans Should Know About the Economy
The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress — and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more equitable society – unless more Americans know the truth about the economy.
The American Jobs Depression, and How to Get Out of It
Since the start of the Great Recession at the end of 2007, America’s potential labor force – that is, working-age people who want jobs – has grown by over 7 million. But since then, the number of Americans who actually have jobs has shrunk by more than 300,000.
Obama Fails Again, To Go Big and Bold
President Barack Obama failed once again to lay out a big and bold enough jobs plan that will have a measurable effect on jobs and growth. Instead, the President opted for small, focusing on tax cuts and hoping that the Republicans will go for it.
