by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 27, 2011
We have before us an incredible opportunity to transform our economy. The disastrous turn our fiscal health took in 2008 has forced us to really think about the way our country creates and distributes wealth. One positive outcome of the recession is a zeal and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 18, 2011
Unemployment is bad, and our progress in creating new jobs has been unacceptably slow. Youth unemployment is often where the problem is worst, and it’s becoming a global phenomenon with 20 percent of British youth and 40 percent of Spanish youth unable to find jobs....
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 13, 2011
It’s been 64 years since George Bailey and his friends and neighbors saved his community bank in the classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Today, the desire and need to save local communities is just as important and urgent as it was in that wonderful...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 11, 2011
America’s largest companies are, more often than not, contributing to a disastrous trend: a decline in job creation. When compared to 2006, in 2009, there was a 25 percent decrease in overall job creation and a 34 percent decrease in job creation among startups. These...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 15, 2011
Why do people in the financial sector earn 100 times more than the average neurosurgeon? How is it possible that in 2009 the top 10 bankers earned an average of $900,000 an hour and the top 25 bankers earned as much as 658,000 entry-level teachers — put...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 10, 2011
This weekend, I watched a ’60 Minutes’ show that took me inside the lives of homeless kids in Central Florida. The Congressional Budget Office projects that the child-poverty rate will soon hit 25 percent. By the end of the segment, I felt sad and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 11, 2011
For close to one-and-a-half hours this week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis sat patiently, and deeply engaged, as she listened to the challenges and opportunities that small business faces in a country dominated by the influence of large multinational...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 11, 2011
Yesterday, Matt Madia, a policy analyst at OMB Watch, Robert Weissman, president at Public Citizen, Peter Iwanowicz of the American Lung Association, and I participated in a media briefing to call attention to Representative Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) plans to hold...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 2, 2011
Fighting Democracy and Destroying America’s Economic Future This has been quite a year for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a year of blunders as well as successes. On balance, it appears the chamber is winning more often than it’s losing. My concern is who’s benefiting...
