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Laura Flanders talks to creative thinkers and change-makers from the worlds of politics, arts and the new economy. The smartest conversations, with the smartest thinkers and doers of our time, distributed in multiple formats on a variety of platforms. Keep abreast of fresh content by following GRITtv, the site Flanders founded, on Twitter @GRITtv.
President Obama spoke today about the need for more government action to spur job creation, saying that small businesses and green jobs were the way...
President Obama spoke today about the need for more government action to spur job creation, saying that small businesses and green jobs were the way forward for the nation. He proposed shifting funds from the TARP program--the much-derided bank bailout--to job creation programs, and offered tax cuts and incentives. But, our guests today note, the problems with unemployment and underemployment in this country aren't just results of this current recession, and they will not be fixed simply by returning to where we were. Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion, Tim Casey of Legal Momentum and author of the report Battered by the Storm, Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress, and Max Fraad Wolff of The New School for Social Research talk about the solutions, short and long-term, for creating jobs, spreading them more equitably through the population, and fixing the structural problems with the economy that led to this recession.
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