Category Archives: job creation
Catalyze the Creation of Many Jobs in the U.S.? End the Reign of America’s Kleptobankers? The Fledgling Customized-Education Industry is the Best Bet to Do Both, Findings of Top Researchers Indicate.
(This article adapts a two-part series I wrote for popular blog Zero Hedge. An excerpt from this entry has been noted approvingly by Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi. Thanks kindly for any feedback.)
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Lots of great “Ideas for Change in America” are on display at Change.org
I was just surfing around the site. Lots of smart, inspiring submissions…
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UK Prime Minister: “Education will be perhaps our biggest export in 20 years’ time.”
From the February 11, 2010 edition of The Guardian newspaper:
[British PM Gordon] Brown also said he wanted to build up Britain’s universities. “There are 1,000 universities being built in India and we want to be part of this educational export. I think that education will be perhaps our biggest export in 20 years’ time,” he [...]
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My submission to the U.S. Dept. of Ed.’s new OpenEducation site
The site: “How should we collaborate with…businesses?”
My submission (with supporting info): Advocate for ‘jobs stimulus’ that subsidizes consumers and producers of customized education, and operators of associated online markets.
Predictable?
You can comment and/or vote at the site.
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A guest post of mine on popular blog Zero Hedge
Part one of a two- or three-part series. Written in the ZH style…
To learn about Zero Hedge, see this feature story from the September 27, 2009 issue of New York magazine.
UPDATE (2/15/10): Part two is online at ZH.
UPDATE (2/26/10): ZH is one of “Ten Wall Street Blogs You Need to Bookmark Now,” according [...]
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Merciful reviewers
A Google employee blogs:
A fantastic post about disrupting education.
Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi “calls out” a comment I left on his blog. The comment excerpts from this blog entry of mine.
From After the Frat, a blog:
A brilliant idea by Frank Ruscica about how to finally get out of this economic quagmire.
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2005 OECD report: Increasing the average schooling level of the population by one year increases long-term economic growth by 3.7%
From The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment To Equity Will Determine Our Future, a forthcoming 2010 book by Stanford professor and Obama education adviser Linda Darling-Hammond:
A recent OECD report found that for every year the average schooling level of the population is raised, there is a corresponding increase of 3.7% in [...]
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Wired mag: manufacturing jobs will be found/created via workflow markets
From the cover story of the January 2010 issue of Wired magazine:
Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter [...]
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NY Times: “Many of the jobs slashed during this recession are not coming back.”
From a January 28, 2010 entry on the Economix blog of the NY Times:
The big ocean of blue represents the portion of the unemployed who have lost their jobs, with the lighter blue section showing those whose jobs are gone permanently.
There are multiple ways to explain why permanent job-losers represent a higher share of the [...]
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U. Mass. researchers: education services deliver by far the biggest bang for the jobs-creation buck
From this paper (.pdf):
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Small Business Administration: Businesses with fewer than 20 employees create more than 97 percent of all jobs
From an August 2007 article in Inc. magazine:
Businesses with fewer than 20 employees account for 90 percent of all U.S. firms and are responsible for more than 97 percent of all new jobs, according to a new report by the Small Business Administration.
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OurFuture.org on Michigan’s successful No Worker Left Behind (NWLB) initiative