by Bill Scher | Feb 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
Nearly 600,000 Jobs Lost in January ALERT: AM Labor Dept. reports massive job loss: "Nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply in January (-598,000 [jobs]) and the unemployment rate rose from 7.2 to 7.6 percent..." Robert Reich: "Senate Republicans and the Stimulus:...
by Roger Hickey | Feb 5, 2009 | Blog
At a press conference today by Wall Street mogul Peter Peterson, he and his invited speakers informed Americans who are losing their jobs and homes in record numbers that our nation’s biggest problem is the national deficit—and that the solution is to cut Social...
by Bill Scher | Feb 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
ALERT 1: Final vote on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act could be today. Call your Senators at 1-866-544-7573 and demand immediate passage of a big and bold economic recovery bill. ALERT 2: New jobless claims jump more than expected to 626K The Majority Fights...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 4, 2009 | Blog
Three economists have laid out in stark terms what the stakes are for the economy in the economic recovery debate now going on in the Senate—and brought home just how dangerous conservative obstructionist rhetoric really is. "This cannot be allowed to fail," Alan...
by Bill Scher | Feb 4, 2009 | Blog
Something tells me President Barack Obama has had it with the free ride that fact-challenged conservative obstructionists have been getting lately. In remarks earlier today, the President reminded the conservative minority that the the election was a public rejection...
