Blogs About "Economy"

Source: http://womensenews.org posted by Marley Gibbons on 8/5/11

Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security were spared immediate cuts in this week's deal to raise the government's borrowing limit. But long-term threats are seen to the programs women disproportionately depend on.

The debt-ceiling agreement in Washington this week...

A question I've asked constantly over the last decade is "what are we building, creating, educating?" As in, what is the foundation for our economic growth, economic future?

This morning, I read and watched with interest Umair Haque's "America's Lost Decade(s)" (Harvard Business Review http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/08/americas_lost_decade.html)

Umair asks "Is America headed for a lost decade? And is that why I relentlessly propose that the days of industrial age business as...

While recent economic reports suggest that the Great Recession might be coming to an end, few of us have time to celebrate this hopeful news. To quote a recent Newsweek article, “The Recession Is Over! But Not For You—Yet!”

As employers continue to downsize the work force, remaining employees find themselves shouldering more responsibilities without a corresponding fatter paycheck or even adequate training—a formula for anxiety and stress. I’ve been hearing complaints...

Check out this article by Joseph Hooper at ELLE on September 14, 2009 (link at http://www.elle.com/Life-Love/Society-Career-Power/25-and-Unemployed):

"I have this vivid memory of that Sunday,” Laurie Barnett, tells me over the disco music pumping into the midtown Manhattan restaurant where we meet, “when everyone figured out that Lehman was going bankrupt and Merrill was merging with Bank of America, and everything basically went to shit.” It’s hard to picture Laurie, 25, athletic and...