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Make It In America Exhibit At A County Fair
This weekend I went to the San Mateo (CA) County Fair. My wife’s dance troupe (pic here) and students were performing. (They were on a stage next to and immediately before the pig races, near the funnel cake stand.) I got there early and before they started I walked...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/15/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Demand A...
Demand A Full-Employment Agenda
Conservatives are masters at manipulating public expectations for their ends, and they are doing it to particularly disastrous effect when it comes to what we should expect on jobs. The result is that we are being persuaded to accept the unacceptable. That is the tide...
Jobs Its Past Time to Get Loud and Surly
"It's an employer's world," said Rebecca Penny, a 55-year-old widow who was laid off over a year ago from her job at a Chevrolet plant in Tennessee. "I lost my benefits the night I was laid off. Now I can't afford medicine. And I can only find minimum...
Pathetic
That’s the word I’d use to describe the recent leadership of both Political Parties on American jobs, and especially factory jobs. The only development on Monday more depressing than President Obama’s trip to an outsourcing manufacturer in North Carolina was the...
CNN Asks The Right Question Republicans Have No Answer
Yesterday, I proposed CNN ask the Republican presidential candidates, "Why didn't the Bush tax cuts create jobs?" CNN's debate moderator John King asked that precise question to Tim Pawlenty in last night's debate. Pawlenty had no answer. JOHN KING: Where's the proof...
Is Obama Too Focused On Wall Street
Yesterday on MSNBC in a segment titled "Is Obama Too Focused On Wall Street," Robert Borosage responded to questions about the President's pursuit of campaign contributions from Wall Street, and if it necessarily has to impact our economic policy. Visit msnbc.com for...
The Question For Tonights GOP Presidential Debaters Why Didnt The Bush Tax Cuts Create Jobs
Tonight is the first Republican presidential debate with all the top contenders planning to attend. And there is only one question I want to see asked: Why didn't the Bush tax cuts create any jobs? Every candidate on tonight's debate stage not only continues to...
A Trajectory of Improvement Whats In The White House Water
Today in Washington White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee argued against efforts to boost the economy, saying that the jobs market "is on a trajectory of improvement." He was probably trying to evoke a reaction using the initials of the President's slogan...
When Will Obama Sound the Alarm About Jobs
The sudden weakening of the economic recovery is now undermining even the stock market. As usual, however, Wall Street is worried about profits and a possible double-dip recession. But what the press and the Obama administration have not adequately taken up is how...
