The Urgent Need for Job Creation

On the heels of the Senate vote on the extension of unemployment benefits, Sen. Al Franken, Rep. Keith Ellison and Alan Charney of Jobs for America Now joined John Schmitt of CEPR for a press conference to discuss the findings of a new CEPR report on the desperate need for action on job creation. The report shows that absent serious proposals for job creation, it may take a decade for the nation to get back to pre-recession unemployment rates.

“South of the Border”: New Openings, Interviews, and Response to Criticism

Mark Weisbrot, CEPR Co-Director and co-writer of the Oliver Stone documentary," South of the Border," has written a new response to misleading criticism of the film from a New York Times reporter. The film is currently playing in the U.S. and U.K. will open in several new U.S. cities in the coming weeks. Listen to Mark's latest radio interviews about the film here.