Tag Archive: recession

Jul 06

Will the Young and Unemployed Ever Recover from the Great Recession?

This Week’s Big Question: The young and unemployed will likely recover from the Great Recession, says Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post. The answer lies in highly local solutions. With unemployment rates sky high, Americans are turning to a “parallel economy,” using their ingenuity, creativity and new web tools to start their own enterprises, she says. Unfortunately, that …

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Jun 17

A New Red Menace, America in Decline and Back to 1950s Taxes

Recovery or recession, delay or decline, success or stagnation? Amid a protracted economic downturn, a highly partisan political atmosphere and record-high unemployment levels, it’s still unclear how the history books will look back on this period in America’s culture and economy. That doesn’t mean, however, that the world’s top thinkers don’t have plenty of opinions …

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