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Weak Unions, Weak Economy
Why the Decline of Organized Labor Makes it Harder to Revive Growth
Wrong Culprits: What's NOT Stopping Job Growth
With unemployment above 9 percent, creating more jobs is an urgent priority for the United States. But it is difficult to have a sensible debate on how to spark job growth given the myths and misinformation that surround this issue. Specifically, many political leaders and analysts wrongly point to three culprits in explaining weak job growth: government regulations, the new healthcare law, and taxes. None of these explanations hold up under closer scrutiny. Regulation Isn't Stopping Job Growth
Put America Back To Work
The biggest domestic policy failure has been the refusal of top officials in the White House and in Congress to recognize the severity of the employment crisis that has settled like a plague over American workers.
It's the Consumption, Stupid
Population levels will continue to increase consumption levels don't have to.
Real Jobs Crisis, Fringe Ideas
Do Republicans in Congress care about creating jobs -- which polls say is the number one issue for voters -- or about ideological purity? The ongoing debate on Capitol Hill over President Obama's $447 billion jobs package offers a crystal clear answer to that question.
Consumption Junction: How Much Should We Spend?
We are at a crossroads: do we choose economic growth or environmental sustainability?
Obama Administration Rejects Keystone XL Permit
It's not often that good news comes out of Washington. Today is an exception: the Obama Administration is expected to deny TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sand pipeline application.
Wall Street Journal Advances False Climate Claims, Refuses to Publish Correction
Wall Street Journal Brazenly Advances False Climate Claims
The Climate Change Movement Needs a Reboot
A few weeks ago, Desmogblog.com released a series of internal documents from the Heartland Institute, one of the leaders of the climate denial movement, which shows the Institute's strategy for pushing their climate denying message.
Recipe for Instability: Water Scarity and Climate Change
Why conservative policymakers' climate denial has far-researching national security implications.
The Difficulty of Climate Messaging
New Orleans, LA, Sept.
The Importance of Energy Efficiency
Extreme Heat, Wildfires, and Climate Change
Even though it's only the 9th of July, nearly 3,400 maximum and minimum temperature records have been tied or broken so far this month. Dozens of people have died and the lack of rainfall combined with the extreme heat is threatening the Midwest's corn crop.
Does Climate Change Increase Likelihood of Extreme Weather? Yes.
Following up on our last post on the link between climate change and extreme weather, a new scientific study was released that found that manmade climate change increases the probability of extreme weather patterns. The study was a joint effort between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the U.S. and the Met Office in the U.K.
How Do We Value Nature?
How to value the economic role that natural resources play and incorporate some of these external costs so that not only are we aware of the impacts, we can begin to start incorporate them into pricing.
Why Deregulation Won't Create Jobs
As early as today, the Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives will be bringing H.R. 4078, the so-called "Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act" up for a vote. Like so much of what passes for legislation in Congress these days, this legislation is more a statement of philosophy than a thought out piece of policy.
Extreme Drought is Exhibit A for How Climate Change Hurts the Economy
As we pointed out a few weeks ago, man-made climate change will make extreme weather events much more likely going forward and we are facing a pretty serious one now. More than half of the continental U.S.