Huffington Post
By Esther J. Cepeda
November 6, 2009
It's been about a year since I last wrote about women's economic advancement and diversity initiatives in the context of the Great Recession.
Things were starting to get rough back then and they're still not great. Despite some nice indicators of national economic health, for the most part, people are concerned about jobs, jobs, jobs.
The Obama administration has been knocked for not delivering on the promise of "shovel-ready" infrastructure-related job creation opportunities because state-level budget catastrophes used up a lot of the stimulus money to keep jobs they otherwise would've had to eliminate.
