economy

In economic crisis, ordinary people create solutions

November 25, 2009 By Michael Robert Langdon

"We the people" - Local communities are creating human networks of food banks, community gardens, medical clinics, telephone hotlines and more.

Federal aid urgently needed to avoid state budget catastrophes

November 24, 2009 By John Bachtell

CHICAGO— Looming behind the 17 million jobless tsunami hitting the country is another disaster: over $180 billion in accumulated budget deficits set to devastate state governments, according to a new study by the Pew Center for...

Are we left behind in the ‘green production’ revolution?

November 20, 2009 By John Case

Institute for America's Future experts: China has a national industrial strategy. We do not. And we better come up with one soon.

Feeling heat, U.S.-China firms say they’ll build turbines here

November 19, 2009 By Susan Webb

Under pressure from the nation’s biggest manufacturing union, a U.S.-China energy partnership said it would build a factory here, creating 1,000 jobs.

Americans for Finance Reform takes aim at big finance

November 16, 2009 By John Wojcik

Americans for Finance Reform is making it clear that curbing the power of the nation's finance industry will help boost the economy more than focusing on deficits.