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Understanding Bushonomics

Understanding Bushonomics

Scott Lilly details the Bush administration's unsustainable and unbalanced economic policies that have led to the current weak state of the U.S. economy.

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Localities Benefit from Housing Plan

Help Is on the Way

Housing law passed last week will give almost $4 billion to states and localities to stabilize communities. Fact sheets show how additional funding will help each state.

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How to Deal with Jerusalem
MIDDLE EAST PROGRESS

How to Deal with Jerusalem

Lt. Col. Ron Shatzberg talks with Middle East Progress about why he thinks Jerusalem has to be dealt with as part of a comprehensive peace package.

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Factory Facts

Factory Facts

The big manufacturing states, their blue-collar workforces, and their citizens are reeling amid today’s economy’s woes, write Christian E. Weller and Diego Flores. We need to do something about disappearing factory floors.

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Job Losses Mount

Job Losses Mount

The latest employment figures reveal widening job losses amid uneven economic growth, writes David Madland. Mounting job losses require short- and long-term action.

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How to Redeploy

It is not only possible, but necessary, to conduct a safe and responsible redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq in no more than 10 months.

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Media | August 7, 2008

Poor Coverage on Poverty

The mainstream media can’t explain the causes of poverty, and right-wing talking heads say the poor are the problem, say Eric Alterman and George Zornick.
Energy & Environment | August 7, 2008

Climate War Games

Tackling climate change will require the U.S. and China to move beyond their historic impasse on reducing emissions, explain Hachigian and Sussman.
Women's Health & Rights | August 6, 2008

A Missing Piece of the Prevention Puzzle

We can no longer afford to ignore the role of sexual violence in teen pregnancy, writes Malika Saada Saar.
Energy & Environment | August 6, 2008

It All Comes Out in the Wash

Switching to efficient and energy-conscious washers and dryers can reduce the water and energy cost of the typical laundry routine.
Poverty & Mobility | August 5, 2008

UK-Style Welfare Reform

Kate Bell explains why the British government should look to its own poverty success rather than the United States' early failures for welfare reform help.

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Cleaning Up for the Olympics

Cleaning Up for the Olympics Bob Sussman on the severity of China's pollution problem, what it's doing on pollution and global warming, and how the Untied States can help.

PUBLICATIONS

America's Middle Class Still Losing Ground

America's Middle Class Still Losing Ground Christian E. Weller and Amanda Logan update their analysis of middle class security; there's no doubt that the middle class is now taking an ever harder hit.

Wealth Mobility and Volatility in Black and White

Wealth Mobility and Volatility in Black and White A new report finds that wealth may be more fundamental to upward mobility in the United States, and differences exist by race.

  • Robbing Tomorrow to Pay for Today: Report finds that economically squeezed families are increasingly turning to easily accessible loans from their 401(k) plans to help them make ends meet.
  • The Cost of Reaction: The third in a series of reports on sustainable security examines a new long-term strategy for delivering aid to countries in crisis as opposed to a reactive approach.

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