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President-elect Obama's transition team is working on stimulus plans aimed specifically at middle-income workers.A look at economic projections for 2009 and the prospects for averting a sharp rise in unemployment
Mark Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Moodys Economy.com author of Financial Shock: A 360 degree Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis
Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute
Naftali Bendavid, deputy Washington bureau chief, "Chicago Tribune;" author of "The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution"
An outdoor enthusiast on the story of the American buffalos, its place in this country's history, and a first-hand account of a modern-day buffalo hunt in the Alaskan wilderness
Steven Rinella, Author of "The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine" and a correspondent for "Outside" Magazine