by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 13, 2011
A better way is possible. We spend more than $110 billion fighting wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but are plagued with a poverty rate of more than 17 percent. At 6.7 deaths per 1,000 live births, the U.S. had the highest infant mortality rate among the high-income...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 7, 2011
“The neglect of women’s rights means the social and economic potential of half the population is underused. In order to tap into this potential, we must open up spaces for women in political leadership, in science and technology, as trade and peace negotiators, and as...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 25, 2011
For some, the taste of chocolate is bittersweet. Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa comes from small-scale family farmers in West Africa, whose economy is critically dependent on cocoa (revenues account for more than 33 percent of Ghana’s total export earnings and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 24, 2011
This post was originally published by Phil Radford to Greenpeace USA’s blog and is accessible here. “A sad fact of living in an American city like Chicago is that every time we open a newspaper or switch on the local news, we hear of some senseless, tragic...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 16, 2011
Something remarkably progressive is happening in one of the more repressive work environments in the United States. Within the tomato business, an industry that has seen nine cases of slavery prosecuted in the past 15 years, workers’ rights are finally becoming a key...
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...
