by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
Good Lord, what is the matter with people? There are millions of jobs that need doing, and millions of unemployed. How hard is it to figure out what to do? Next up before the Senate is an infrastructure bill. It's simple, $60 billion to repair aging infrastructure....
by Farbod Kadkhoda | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Just as public works projects launched by FDR put millions of unemployed people to work during the Great Depression, the Obama administration has pushed to invest billions in public works projects to create jobs for millions of today’s unemployed. But many of the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
The House of Representatives this afternoon scheduled a vote on a three-month, stopgap transportation funding bill, as conservatives struggle to decide what sort of long-term transportation plan it is willing to put on the House floor for a vote. The alternative that...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
Take a good look at Europe—bloody riots in Athens and Madrid, rising unemployment, spreading poverty and suicide, and a deepening recession—because the current American elite consensus bizarrely wants to drive America down that same path. Europe's miseries come from...
