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Current Account Surplus Watch

Access the Current Account Surplus Watch, the first comprehensive index of economies with large current account surpluses that measures the negative impact of chronic surpluses on world economic growth.
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Lessons of the Eurozone Crisis

Sherle R. Schwenninger argues that while the United States cannot do much to help the Eurozone directly, it can nonetheless draw the right lessons for American policy.
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Response to President Obama's American Jobs Act

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A Vision for Economic Renewal

In a groundbreaking new report, the Task Force on Job Creation outlines policy changes required to create jobs and put America's economy back on track.
The American Workers

Rethinking the American Social Contract

Lauren Damme uses the International Labor Organization’s Decent Work Agenda to quantify and analyze the American Social Contract.
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The American Workers

Events

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 3:00pm | Washington
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 4:00pm | Washington
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 12:15pm | Washington
Friday, July 22, 2011 - 12:00pm | Washington
Monday, July 11, 2011 - 12:00pm | Washington
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Leo Hindery, Jr., Representative John Garamendi, Senator Tom Harkin, and members of the Task Force on Job Creation were joined by Sherle Schwenninger, the Director of the Economic Growth Program and Michael Lind, Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation, to outline the policy changes that the administration and Congress need to implement now in order to put America back on a path to full employment and economic recovery.
 

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Decent Jobs Forum

Yes We Can Create Decent Jobs
by Heather Boushey, Center for American Progress
 
The Jobs Question
by James K. Galbraith, University of Texas at Austin

A Most Undemocratic Recovery

by Joel Kotkin, Chapman University and the Legatum Institute
by Katherine Newman, Johns Hopkins University
 
Import Money - Export Goods
by Robert Atkinson, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
 
Making Work Better for Everyone
by Paul Osterman, MIT Sloan School of Management
 
Low-Wage Jobs and No Wage Growth
by Lane Kenworthy, University of Arizona

Needed: A New Social Contract at Work

by Thomas A. Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management

It Takes a Policy Agenda

by L. Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute
Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute
 
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Senators John Kerry, Mark Warner and Kay Bailey Hutchison were joined by Representative Rosa DeLauro to discuss proposals for the creation of a national infrastructure bank to reduce America’s infrastructure deficit.  The bank is one critical public financing mechanism that is critical to rebuilding America’s prosperity.
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