Educate Yourself: Learn About the Global Financial Crisis and the Obama Recovery Effort
Below are links to analysis put forward by organization and news sources we trust to help prepare ourselves to better respond to the crisis.
Mar 3, 2009The Geography of a Recession
Job losses have been most severe in the areas that experienced a big boom in housing, those that depend on manufacturing and those that already had the highest unemployment rates.
The New York Timesmore
Feb 11, 2009Where does your state rank?
Americans everywhere are feeling the recession’s pain – some more than others. An interactive map that shows state by state unemployment levels, state budget deficits, and forecoslures.
CNN Money.commore
Nov 24, 2008Skewed Priorities
The approximately $4.1 trillion that the United States and European governments have committed to rescue financial firms is 40 times the money they’re spending to fight climate and poverty crises in the developing world
Institute for Policy Studiesmore
Oct 14, 2008The layman's finance crisis glossary
The current financial crisis has thrown terminology from the business pages onto the front page of newspapers, with jargon now abounding everywhere from the watercooler to the back of a taxi.
BBC Newsmore