by James Parks, Mar 25, 2008 Americans spend more money on health care than any other country, but the benefits of our health care system are distributed unequally. We know 47 million Americans have no health care and the health care system is broken. Ninety-five percent of the 26,000 people who responded to the AFL-CIO/Working […]
A Matter of Priorities
Last night, we passed another horrific milestone in Iraq: 4,000 U.S. men and women killed nearly five years to the day the war began. As Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) points out in this guest blog, the fiscal year 2009 federal budget George W. Bush is proposing includes billions of dollars to keep up the war, […]
Changing the investment multiplier for remittance dollar
What do you top policy-makers say? Every dollar that non-residents send to Bangladesh has a multiplier effect of 3.3 on overall economy in GNP terms. In lay-man’s term, if some worker sends 1 dollar to Bangladesh, it does not increase the GNP by 1 dollar, rather it increases the national GNP by 3.3 dollar. Its […]
Can Obama Create A New ‘Majority’ That Transcends Partisan Politics?
The heart of Obama’s platform for the Democratic nomination and the United States presidency is the theme of bringing change to the country along with bringing people together. He has been saying that he can bring Democrats, Republicans, and Independents together in order to get the necessary things done and accomplished. In short, Obama explains […]
Take Back America: Fighting for Shared Prosperity
by Seth Michaels, Mar 19, 2008 Why is the U.S. economy failing working people? It’s a failure of public policy at the highest levels. The solution is to push hard for a new agenda that puts working people first, according to panelists at “The Economics of Shared Prosperity,” a session at Take Back America […]
Globalization and Bangladesh
According to Oxford Dictionary “Globalization is the fact that different cultures and economic systems around the world are becoming connected and similar to each other because, of the influence of large multinational companies and of improved communication”. According to Wikipedia (an web encyclopedia) Globalization refers to increasing global connectivity, integration and interdependence in the […]
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