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...This is why the problem of how America works needs to become the focus of an urgent national debate. The jobs crisis offers an opportunity to think in profound ways about how and why we work, about what makes employment satisfying, about the jobs Americans can and should do best. But the ideas Washington has delivered so far are insufficient. They reflect a pre-9%-11% way of thinking as much as old defense policy reflected a pre-9/11 notion of who our enemies were. The funding for job creation in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was based...
...months after the University implemented sweeping workforce reductions, union officials remain optimistic that the over 100 laid-off staffers in the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers will be placed into open job positions elsewhere within the University. “Our official view at this point is, ‘So far, so good.’ Or maybe even a little better,” said HUCTW director Bill Jaeger. “The human resources community at the University is more aware than it’s ever been, and more thoughtful than we?...
...needs are greater, more people are hungry, more people are out of work, more people are falling through the cracks, but when I talk to young people, for example, I say to them now is the time to get experience - since you may not be able to find a job right away - get some experience doing some good for your country, and that will not only be in the interest of the people you help, but it's going to be in your self-interest. You'll get work experience, you'll make contacts, you'll network, you'll expand...
...actually less involved in the community than they used to be; that people are hunkering down, as you say, they're looking out for their own. How do you make the argument in that kind of environment to people who are saying, like, hey, I've lost my job and you're telling me to volunteer? How does that work? Does it make it a lot more difficult? Mrs. Obama: As the President said, I think that these are challenging times, but one of the things that we've talked about and I talk about among my friends is that...
...photographed with a bullhorn in her hand. This all comes at a time when Atlanta is struggling with financial red ink, rising crime, and an increasingly affluent population fed up with high taxes and poor services. When November comes, Atlantans will have to give the mayor's job to someone other than incumbent Shirley Franklin, who is term-limited after eight years in office. (See the five best big city mayors...