In Good We Trust
We are at a pivot point. To save the United States as we have known it, we need to put things in the proper balance and perspective. We need to reaffirm our trust in good as well as God.
We are at a pivot point. To save the United States as we have known it, we need to put things in the proper balance and perspective. We need to reaffirm our trust in good as well as God.
John Geyman | Posted 12.12.2011 | Business
We have had about a 75-year experiment with employer-sponsored health insurance, but its track record is one of continued decline over the last 30 years.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.23.2011 | Politics
As was entirely predictable, once Obama stood up for taxing the rich folk a wee bit more, the Republicans fired back with what they think is the biggest weapon in their arsenal: screaming "Class warfare!"
David Coates | Posted 10.29.2011 | Politics
In the right-wing litany, trade unions stand accused of causing unemployment by inflating wages and of blocking productivity growth and investment. The claims would be laughable were they not so dangerous.
Francine Hardaway | Posted 09.30.2011 | Politics
Few people are concerned about the elderly, the poor, and the sick. Rather, this debt deal, like everything else, is driven by fear of disturbing the Asian markets. We are worrying about the downgrade, not the citizens
Paul Abrams | Posted 06.14.2011 | Politics
President Obama's speech hit all the right notes. He provided a background and context for the debt challenge. And he laid the blame for this challenge squarely where it belongs.
Stan Sorscher | Posted 06.05.2011 | Business
We are told we can't afford social investments. Sure we can. To me, social investment often out-performs what I could do as an individual.
Uriel Abulof | Posted 01.03.2012 | World
For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.
Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
To get into balance, we need to restore the social contract -- the deal that public resources are rightly used to promote business, and in exchange, businesses recognize a duty to shared prosperity.
George T. Haley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Education
Our governments have a responsibility to educate our children with the skills and knowledge to contribute effectively to society, and to compete successfully against global peers and competitors.
Ben Tripp | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
We can call it libertarianism, patriotism, conservatism, or anything we want, but the truth is this: an ideology of selfishness has gripped the nation.
Peter G. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Today we celebrate Labor Day but we don't celebrate labor. We're quickly dividing the country into rich and poor and shrinking the middle class. It's a formula for national disaster.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Conservatives like to say that taxes are theft. In fact it is tax cuts that are theft because they break a long-standing contract: The American Social Contract.
Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
We all want to create jobs and encourage economic recovery. We now have over 30 years of experience with trickle-down policies. What has worked, and what needs change?
Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Fairness is the basis of the social contract. As citizens we expect that when we contribute our fair share we should receive our just reward. When s...
Georgia Levenson Keohane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
This week and next I am a guest blogger at The Center for Effective Philanthropy. My posts address philanthropy and the economic crisis, and include ...
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
It's one thing for private practitioners to decide not to offer certain services, birth control, for example. It's another to use tax dollars to impose religious principals that deny a specific service.
Dr. Judith Rodin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Almost half of America's youngest workers believe the nation's best days may have come and gone. This is Generation Y, the nation's largest age group, and increasingly its most pessimistic.
Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 12.06.2011 | Politics