For the past day and a half, several Senior Administration officials and I joined leaders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors to discuss the role of innovation in achieving sustainable economic growth and quality jobs. We wish to extend our thanks to the Aspen Institute, Intel, the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and […]
The United State Agency for International Development (USAID) is responding to President Obama’s call to promote women’s empowerment throughout the world by strengthening the Agency’s gender policy. USAID funds development projects all around the world which strive to promote greater socioeconomic development. In the diverse cultures where USAID works, project assistance may impact men and […]
There’s a new report out from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the economic impact of the Recovery Act. I’ll get to the findings in a second, but somebody over at the Wall St. Journal’s editorial page has a whole lot of explaining to do. Here what CBO found: Between its inception in February of this year […]
Today, on World AIDS Day, we take a moment to recognize those living with AIDS and the organizations dedicated to HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and treatment. There are approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS today in the United States. Another 56,000 Americans contract HIV each year and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that […]
If you’re an avid reader of this blog or you’ve been following the health insurance reform process closely, you probably know by now that reform will strengthen Medicare and keep the Medicare trust fund in the black for an additional five years. So you might find it curious that opponents of reform continue to repeat […]
Jonathan Gruber, PhD, a MIT Economist who has been closely following the health insurance reform process, issued a compelling new report based on data from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. As the Politico wrote, "The report concludes that under the Senate’s health-reform bill, Americans buying individual coverage will pay less than they do for today’s […]
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) approved by consensus today three draft resolutions relating, respectively, to sustainable mountain development, cyber security and landlocked developing countries. By terms of the text on landlocked developing countries, the General Assembly would express concern that the economic growth of those countries remained very susceptible to external shocks, and […]
I have seen the consequences of a health care system in need of reform – too few insured, too costly for others and too little quality for all. Unsustainable growth in the cost of health care and the continued denial of coverage to millions of Americans is evidence that our health care system has failed. […]
Chairman Warns Three-Year-Old Commission Still Underutilized, Says Council, Other UN Bodies, Should Take Better Advantage of Its Potential The Peacebuilding Commission was the central intergovernmental body mandated with ensuring that the United Nations led in coordinating international efforts to help alleviate the suffering of populations in post-conflict situations, the Commission?s Chairman, Heraldo Muñoz of Chile […]
Other Draft Resolutions Recommended to General Assembly Address Human Rights, Cultural Diversity; International Year for People of African Descent Alarmed at the increase in racist violence and xenophobic ideas in many parts of the world, the General Assembly would express unequivocal condemnation of all forms of racism and racial discrimination by one of five draft […]
