Arianna Huffington: What Hurricane Irene Can Teach Us About the Jobs Crisis

Arianna Huffington: What Hurricane Irene Can Teach Us About the Jobs Crisis

Melody Hopkins

If only the media could spring into action about the jobs crisis as quickly and as efficiently as they did during Hurricane Irene.

What Hurricane Irene Can Teach Us About the Jobs Crisis

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The response to Hurricane Irene showed that when the media devote wall-to-wall attention to something, and government officials bring a sense of urgency and ask the public to respond in kind, remarkable things can happen. The question is: why do we reserve this kind of collective action for natural ...