Month: March 2012

Interview with Jennifer Granholm: On Infrastructure Investment, AmeriCorps Expansion, and the Need for the Media to call out Obstructionists

Interview editor Ingrid Stegemoeller recently had the opportunity to sit down with Jennifer Granholm, former Governor of Michigan. Jennifer Granholm  shares a few thoughts on the labor market and the recovery, and how Michigan offers a blueprint for other states. She also talks about her different experiences between the Bush and Obama administrations in getting things done […]

Civil Unions: Separate and Unequal

By Henry Schleifer This article originally appeared in the Wilmington News-Journal In America, the face of marriage is changing at an increasing rate.  A recent study by Pew Research found that one in every 12 new marriages was an interracial couple.  Stunningly, these unions would not have been legal in many states just 50 years […]