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- Money and the Financial System
- Growth and Resource Use
- Social Justice and Poverty
- Macroeconomics for Sustainability
- Quality of Life & Measurement of Prosperity
- Work
- Regional Aspects
- Governance
- Sustainable Production and Consumption
- Sustainable Management
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President Obama and Rahm Emanuel, his controversial chief of staff, may be parting ways. London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reports that Democratic insiders say Mr. Emanuel will leave shortly after the mid-term elections.
Differences in style between the cerebral Mr. Obama and the confrontational Mr. Emanuel are said to have played a role. In addition, Mr. Emanuel is reported to be frustrated at the inability of the White House to “knock heads together” to fashion political compromises.
Mr. Obama sent a signal by choosing the respected but hard-charging member of the Congressional leadership almost immediately after his 2008 victory to become his top aide. Mr. Emanuel had a reputation as a tough partisan but was also known to exhibit impatience with left-wing members of his party who have overly ambitious ideological agendas.
During last year’s health care debate, Mr. Emanuel famously argued for a less sweeping health care plan than the one that ultimately passed. He lost that argument to David Axelrod, the White House’s chief strategist, and Valerie Jarrett, Mr. Obama’s old friend from Chicago. If Mr. Emanuel does step down, many will suspect that his advice to trim back ObamaCare was the beginning of the end of his power in the White House.
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