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President Obama’s 2011 budget, submitted to Congress this week, totals $3.8 trillion and projects a deficit of $1.6 trillion. And while analysts have had only two days to dissect the massive document, the president’s priorities are clear: jobs and the…
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Tags: Abortion, America, Bono, Children, christian leader, christian leaders, civil, civil debate, Civility, controversy, discourse, earthquake, Gay Marriage, gays, henry kissinger, Hillary Clinton, homosexuals, legislation, lesbians, marriage, national prayer breakfast, political discourse, Prayer, President, President Obama, Prophetic, rhetoric, speech, The Family, The Fellowship, Uganda, United States, values, Vietnam War
The book of Jeremiah states, “For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health…
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Tags: agent orange, babies, bomb, bombing, cancer, cancer patients, cancer rates, chemotherapy, Children, heavy metals, justice, Media, navy, neuroblastoma, pollution, promise, puerto rico, testing, vieques, weapons, White House
After one tumultuous year in office, President Barack Obama used his first State of the Union address last evening to re-state his agenda. But rather than the inspiring rhetoric of a campaign speech, it was a more sober reflection on unfinished…
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Tags: America, bailout, budget, business, CEO, Change, compassion, comprehensive immigration reform, compromise, Congress, corporate irresponsibility, Economic, economy, Education, foreclosure, Foreclosures, government, government spending, Great Recession, Health, health care, health care reform, Hope, Immigration, immigration reform, infrastructure, irresponsibility, legislation, Medicaid, Medicare, Military, Military spending, moral compass, Nuclear Weapons, President Obama, priorities, recession, Rediscovering Values, Religious, security, small business, social justice, social security, state, State of the Union, state of the union address, taxpayers, values, Wall Street, Washington, weapon system, weapons
In past years at Davos, I often found myself in early morning optional sessions on social responsibility, in small rooms on the third floor of the conference center, with people like Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank in…
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Tags: banks, business, Capitalism, Children, class, common good, davos, Economic, economic crisis, economic system, Economics, Environment, financial crisis, Finding Our Way in the New Economy, France, global economy, grameen bank, klaus schwab, Labor, market, mohammad yunus, new economy, nicolas sarkozy, nobel peace prize, nobel peace prize winner, plenary session, Politics, Poverty, profits, Rediscovering Values, shareholders, Social Responsibility, system, Trade, values, Video, Wall Street, wealth, world economic forum
Jim Wallis speaks on the plenary panel topic: “Rethinking Values in the Post-Crisis World,” with Yvan Allaire, Thomas H. Glocer, Yasuchika Hasegawa, Hartmut Ostrowski, Muhammad Yunus, and James H. Quigley.
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At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the topic of corporate ethics and personal values will take on marquee status as one of the six highlighted pillars of the 2010 meeting. Reverend Jim Wallis — author, CEO of…
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Tags: business, davos, Ethics, interview, Main Street, market, Media, Politics, Rediscovering Values, switzerland, values, Video, Wall Street, Washington, world economic forum
 Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance law will give a huge boost to the special interests that already exercise a stranglehold on our political system, allowing them to tighten their grip and further prevent any meaningful change. Dismissing the practice…
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Tags: America, bailout, banks, Campaign, campaign finance law, candidate, center for responsive politics, Corporations, defense contractors, Democracy, Democrat, dissent, economy, Election, Elections, electoral process, First Amendment, First Amendment rights, government, justice, lawmakers, money, Politics, Poor, precedents, sonia sotomayor, special interests, spending, Supreme Court, supreme court ruling, Washington, washington lobbyists
 Last night I was on The Daily Show again with Jon Stewart to talk about my new book. It’s always a fun show. I enjoyed the back and forth with Jon about values, economics, and the bad morality play of banks,…
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Tags: America, bailout, banks, biblical, book tour diary, business, CEO, charity, comments, compensation, culture, Economic, Economics, economy, Finding Our Way in the New Economy, giving, God, goldman sachs, greed, haiti, Jon Stewart, leaders, Main Street, maxims, Media, moral compass, morality, morning joe, Native American, Politics, Rediscovering Values, shame, sunday school, The Daily Show, twitter, Wall Street
 I’m on my way to New York City, and I wanted to let you know that this evening I’ll be visiting again with one of my favorite TV hosts — Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. I’ve been…
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Tags: comedy central, economy, Finding Our Way in the New Economy, interview, jim cramer, Jon Stewart, mad money, new economy, Rediscovering Values, school, The Daily Show, values, Wall Street
There are times when events make everything else pale in comparison. I’m in Los Angeles today on my book tour, but the news of Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake hitting Haiti is one of those times. Over the past few hours, I haven’t…
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Tags: Children, destruction, development, Disaster, earthquake, facebook, Families, government, Haiti food, haitians, hilary clinton, humanitarian, humanitarian relief, International, Katrina, Latin America, Media, natural disaster, natural disasters, New Orleans, Poor, Poverty, President Obama, relief efforts, rubble, stranger, streets, tragedy, victim, water, western hemisphere
 This Monday we had a great launch event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. My favorite newspaper columnist and good friend, E.J. Dionne, hosted and moderated a thoughtful discussion with a packed audience in the Brookings auditorium. E.J. insightfully…
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Tags: airport security, book tour diary, brookings institution, D.C., Democracy, e j dionne, Economic, economic recovery, Economics, economist, Finding Our Way in the New Economy, harry reid, interview, journalist, market economy, Media, moral compass, television, tiger woods, Washington
Last night, at the historic Riverside Church, New York Faith & Justice hosted a lively conversation about morality and economic recovery with leaders representing finance, labor, social justice, and ethics. It was exciting to see so many young faces in…
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Tags: accountability, African-American, book tour diary, canaries, church, crisis, Democrat, deutsche bank, Economic, economic recovery, Ethics, Finding Our Way in the New Economy, greed, Holiday, leaders, Lisa Sharon Harper, Main Street, market, moral compass, morality, new economy, pat purcell, Politics, Poor, riverside church, sin, social justice, theologian, town meeting, united food and commercial workers, values, Wall Street, Workers
The best interview on Wednesday was with “On Point,” an interesting NPR show that goes out to 160 radio stations. Tom Ashbrook is the host; he wondered what morality, values, and especially religion have to do with the current economic…
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Tags: authority, bank overdraft, book tour diary, Conservative, credit card, economist, economy, Finding Our Way in the New Economy, market, moral authority, moral compass, NPR, public morality, tom ashbrook
Tuesday, we traveled to New York City, where authors normally spend more time than in Detroit. Of course, there were more interviews and book conversations on the phone, which will be a staple of my life for the next several…
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Tags: airport security, book tour diary, conversations, economy, Finding Our Way in the New Economy, Great Recession, greed, interview, jim wallis, Main Street, moral compass, new york city, recession, restaurant, ron reagan, ronald reagan, talk show, terrorist, values, Wall Street
Tags: America, book, Books, Community, community organizer, community organizers, Conservative, conventional wisdom, Economic, economic crisis, Family, free books, Great Recession, Hope, interview, jim wallis, leaders, Main Street, money, moral compass, morality, national conversation, new economy, NPR, Organizers, pastor, pastors, Politics, Poor, recession, schuster, theologian, values, Wall Street
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