8.07.09: THIS WEEK FROM THE CENTER Laboring Toward Recovery The latest news about job figures is better than expected and suggests the Recovery Act is working. The Green Bank A CAP Action Fund memo explains the benefits of a green bank and how it would work. Americans Want Solutions Bogus claims about health reform involving illegal immigrants prevent real solutions on two separate issues. Grading on a Curve There’s reason to be disappointed by the first report on mortgage service companies under the HAMP program.

THE WEEK AHEAD

ENERGY: Bracken Hendricks, Benjamin Goldstein, Reid Detchon, and Kurt Shickman release a report on a policy framework for investment in energy efficiency retrofits.

HEALTH CARE: Peter Harbage explains the broken individual health insurance market in a new video.

ECONOMY: Christian E. Weller provides his economic snapshot on the state of the economy, and David Abromowitz takes a look at "farmonomics."

WOMEN'S HEALTH AND RIGHTS: Jessica Arons and Alex Cawthorne release the next issue brief in the "Parenting with Dignity" series.

AND MUCH MORE...

POLICY CORNER

Sustainable Security 101
National Security

Mainstream Media Opens the Door to Hate
Media

Parenting with Dignity
Women's Health and Rights

Health Care Reform Still Popular
Public Opinion

UPCOMING EVENTS

U.S. Policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
August 12