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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 |
Job success is key to assessing quality of higher education
By Carl Camden
While speculation rages about who will win the presidency, there is no mystery over what will define the 2012 election. The candidate who makes the best case for putting people back to work and creating jobs will triumph, period.
As someone who has gone from public assistance and food stamps to tenured university professor and department chairman to CEO of one of the largest corporate employers in America, I've felt the pressure both to get a job and to create jobs. As I see it, America needs to get out of its own way.
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 |
CED Trustee Carl Camden, CEO of Kelly Services, in The San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 2, 2012 – Getting Americans Back to Work.
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Tuesday, 08 November 2011 |
Now that Republicans and Democrats on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction have exchanged "plans" to reduce deficits and meet at least their $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion goal, the time has arrived to assess where the supercommittee is going and where it should go.
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Tuesday, 01 November 2011 |
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CED Trustee Landon Rowland appeared as a guest on the Dylan Ratigan Show with Charles Hall of Justice at Stake to discuss the corrupting influences of money in the election of judges. Please click here to view the video. |
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Tuesday, 01 November 2011 |
Joe Minarik on C-SPAN's Washington Journal
Joseph Minarik talked about the future solvency of Social Security, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Social Security went cash negative in 2011, meaning the the cost of benefits outstripped tax collections for the first time since the early 1980's. Among the topics Mr. Minarik addressed were the Social Security Trust Fund, the role of the Treasury Department, and the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on Social Security. Click here to watch the video... |
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Friday, 16 September 2011 |
By Charles Kolb for the Huffington Post
Let's hope that the president elected in 2012 -- whether it is Mr. Obama again or a Republican -- is a conviction leader capable of providing not just bold words but also bold actions. Our country still needs bold structural reforms: in fiscal policy, tax policy, health care policy, infrastructure investments, and education.
Barack Obama ran a promising and bold 2008 election campaign, but sadly his governing reality has been timid and tepid -- a surprise to millions of his supporters and even to his opponents.
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Wednesday, 07 September 2011 |
By Joe Minarik for Bloomberg Government
(Bloomberg) -- It's a bird. It's a plane. No...it's Supercommittee! And as it begins its work after Labor Day, we'll see whether it's able to leap a tall building -- the U.S. Capitol -- in a single bound.
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or supercommittee, was created by the debt-reduction law enacted in August to increase the debt limit. The law included $917 billion worth of reductions in annual appropriations over the next 10 years. The supercommittee is charged to take that to the next level by adding another $1.2 trillion in spending cuts or new revenue.
Like the comic-book Superman, the supercommittee is endowed with certain unnatural powers. A simple majority of its 12 members -- three from each party in each chamber of Congress -- can write a bill that must go directly to the floor of each chamber and be granted an up-or-down vote, without amendment, with no procedural votes or points of order allowed, and subject to a time limit, which means no filibuster in the Senate.
This is unprecedented authority. The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) act to shut down unneeded military bases came close by requiring Congress to vote on a commission's recommendations without amendment. In the end, BRAC was just a vehicle for a large, unaffected majority in the Congress to beat up on a small, greatly aggrieved minority.
The supercommittee is shooting with real bullets. Its decisions will affect virtually everyone in the country, and certainly every state and every House district. And that's why its powers may well be necessary to achieve a painful and fundamental shift in budget policy.
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Monday, 01 August 2011 |
By Charles Kolb and John Arensmeyer for the Huffington Post
Headlines have dubbed it "unthinkable," and businesses small and large have urged
lawmakers for months to agree soon to ensure the country doesn't default on its debt.
But next week's August 2 deadline to raise the federal debt ceiling looms, and a recent
deal that could have resolved the issue fell through because some lawmakers couldn't
abide elimination of special tax breaks used mostly by the most affluent. It's alarming
that lawmakers have taken the debate so close to the wire, considering the havoc a
default would wreak on small businesses and the economy as a whole.
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Thursday, 21 July 2011 |
By Joe Minarik for Bloomberg Government
(Bloomberg) -- Avoiding a debt crisis requires squaring an ideological circle. Republicans say they will not accept tax increases; Democrats will not accept entitlement cuts unless Republicans give on taxes.
There's no Gordian Knot solution to this dilemma. If it's to be solved -- and we had better pray that it is -- it will be with some transparently theatrical device at whose awkwardness the two sides will wink and nod.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky put such a clever device on the table, though conservative House Republicans continue to protest that it allows debt-limit increases through the next election with no deficit reduction whatsoever. So what else might work?
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 |
on Bloomberg TV
Minarik speaks with Deirdre Bolton and Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack" about about negotiations among lawmakers on raising the U.S. debt ceiling.
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