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...master it - instead of the six-month shots now generally offered. The Administration's proposal to increase funding to community colleges is a start. But it's only a start. Ideally, the White House needs to propose an omnibus employment-emergency bill that guarantees jobless workers a basic set of rights for two to three years: health care, access to retraining, subsidized mentoring for careers in high-end manufacturing or health services. Handled well, such a program could be a "cash for clunker careers." Obama should also bring together innovative minds in technology and service - the people who run consumer...
...teach and barista our way to real national power. Service jobs alone can't support growth and innovation - which will be essential as we struggle to pay off a historic national debt and fund the retirement of the baby boomers. So in addition to a retraining push, a sensible set of policies would shift the landscape of job creation. It would transfer money out of Wall Street and into community lending to encourage the formation of new companies. It would create local business pods in which neighbors ask, What do we do well here...
...Slow Money Alliance, set up as a nonprofit, brings the tenets of the Slow Food movement (buying local) to finance - exploring investment vehicles that re-circulate within the local economy, minimize environmental impact, stress diversity over monoculture, and earn decent returns. Tasch wants to give investors a stake in "restorative economy," building the food and ecological infrastructure on a community to community basis. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...Obama effect: as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama relentlessly touted green products and industry and preached the idea that profits and principles are not mutually exclusive. His election was both a cause and an effect of this sense of social responsibility: his candidacy capitalized on this evolving mind-set, and he has done more than anyone else to advance it. "I think our campaign was an expression of people wanting to be engaged and involved in different ways," Obama said in an interview in the White House this month. "They wanted to be part of something larger than themselves...
Americans have already received the largest allotment of tickets ever for the U.S. in a nonhosted Winter Games, and they want more. Mark Lewis, president of Jet Set Sports, whose CoSport subsidiary handles ticketing for the USOC, says more than 80,000 individual tickets have been sold so far. The final phase of ticket sales will being in mid-September, and fans who want tickets should go to cosport.com "It's certainly not too late," says Lewis. Nor is it too late to book hotel reservations. "There will be rooms available, and more are opening up," says Walt Judas, vice...