Soaring unemployment and climate change call for drastic action. Tell your senators to stimulate the economy with a green jobs bill for American workers.

"If this $15 billion was the only thing [that passed], that would be like having an amputated arm and sticking a Band-Aid on the end of it," said Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, on a conference call Friday.

There's a problem with the bipartisan jobs bill emerging in the Senate: It won't create many jobs.

In all, more than one out of every six workers - 17.5 percent - were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.

Malik Rahim is the Green candidate for Congress in the Louisiana’s 2nd district special election on December 6th. He has been a pioneering community organizer for decades. His chances are good to unseat the incumbent, who has weak political support and grave legal problems.

The world economy faces a triple crunch of financial instability, rising prices for fuel and food, and ecological crisis. An ambitious program of Green job creation that tackles all these problems together may well be the best way to solve them, according to the United Nations.

The current financial crisis presents an opportunity to scrap the failed policies of neoliberal economics and make America's economic policy both stronger and fairer. By rejecting band-aid solutions, taking decisive action to stop the bleeding, holding the culprits accountable, and reforming our financial system to address the root causes of the crisis, we would do future generations a great service.

The Wall Street crisis of 2008 was the inevitable culmination of decades of neoliberal economic policy, which views free markets and deregulation as the solution to every problem. Investigative journalist Naomi Klein explains how this dangerous ideology took hold throughout US academia and government, and why the Wall Street crisis should be for neoliberalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Soviet Communism.

A new study from Michigan State University concludes that wind turbines in the Great Lakes could produce more than 1,000% of Michigan's current peak electricity. A large-scale project to harness this renewable energy could revitalize Michigan's economy and provide clean electricity to the entire Midwest.

A major shift to renewable energy and efficiency is expected to produce 4.2 million new environmentally friendly "green" jobs over the next three decades, according to a study commissioned by the nation's mayors.

As the debate over how to fight climate change evolves, some worry that carbon taxes would be a burden on the economy. In reality, the history of the world's first carbon taxes in Sweden and Denmark shows how a well-designed carbon tax can actually boost and modernize a nation's economy.

Proposals from Washington to fix the financial crisis fall far short of addressing the fundamental problems that led to the crisis. Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of "Globalization and Its Discontents" Joseph Stiglitz outlines an alternative bailout that would benefit the American people instead of the big corporations that made this mess.

A new government report paints a dire picture of the employment prospects of returning military veterans, concluding that young veterans earn less and have a harder time finding work than do civilians in the same age group.