The American Job: The Promise of Instability

At best, this across the field job neurosis could inspire a sense of camaraderie, a shared misery that reduces the jealousy and hostility that I’m all too afraid will define this era.

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A Class Project on Jobs with Barack Obama

As a former academic, President Obama should appreciate this metaphor for his presidency.

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America’s Successful Failures: The Stories of Arlene Ackerman, Wall Street, and Kim Kardashian

What these three seemingly disconnected stories share in common is a horrible, unrealistic message, propagated by both politicians and the media, that it is not just okay to fail, but it can actually turn out to be financially advantageous.

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Hershey Kiss of Death to the American Worker

The recent article, Foreign Students Walk Off Hershey Factory Job Protest, shows the shameless lengths the famous Pennsylvania chocolatier is going to avoid hiring American workers and paying taxes for a solvent Social Security.

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American Jobs Are Not Created Equal

I was just looking for school bags and pencils, but what I found was a moral dilemma. Should I shop at a place where they import out of state workers with lower living standards?

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The American Education System- We Came, We Taught, We Failed…But How We Can Still Succeed

To argue that public schools themselves have failed is too short-sighted and reflects no critical thought, something essential if we are to have any hope of saving this most valuable of institutions.

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Thinking Big 2: Fixing the Housing Crisis

We must correct the housing market by re-establishing new, realistic values and providing new low interest loans based on them.

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Still Scared: Implications of Bin Laden's Death

I want to be happy. Our number one enemy is dead. But after seeing the waving flags at the White House and reading everything there was, something just doesn’t feel right.

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Buying Back America’s Future

If money is the ultimate goal in a nation’s economy, then we are doomed to perpetual 20% unemployment, higher costs of essential goods and energy, and increasing global perturbations.

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State of my Opinion

Photo by Chuck Kennedy

How I wish the State of The Union speech really went:

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