Huffington Post: Not Your Granddad's New Deal: An Economic Stimulus for a Changing America
December 29th, 2008
By Page Gardner
Most economists agree that an anti-recession program should achieve three goals: Pump money into the economy. Save existing jobs and create new jobs. And help those in greatest need.
All three of these signposts point to a large, fast-growing, but long-forgotten group of Americans who should be a major focus of emergency economic measures: the nation’s 53 million single, separated, divorced and widowed women.