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The US Isnt a Company and Its Not a Family Its a Country
Let's begin with a multiple choice test. The United States of America is: a) a for-profit corporation; b) a family, like the typical American family in a 1960's sitcom; c) a nation -- with a national economy and nation-sized problems. If you answered "c," there's good...
Refuted The Absurdity That Buying American-Made Can Be Dangerous
ABC World News has been running segments this week about the importance of buying American-made products. In addition to their reality-TV-style experiment of refurbishing a suburban Dallas home with only Made-in-USA goods, news anchor Diane Sawyer pointed out...
Job Deficit Of 28 Million Our Lost Decade Continues
Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report shows 192,000 net new jobs created in February, the best monthly gain in the nine months since the peak of hiring temporary Census workers in May 2010. Excluding the loss of 30,000 jobs in local, state and federal...
Elected By Promising Jobs Cutting Jobs Once In Office
See if this sounds familiar. Get elected by promising jobs. But once in office push through tax cuts for the wealthy and their corporate masks, and cut jobs. Then use the resulting budget deficits and jobs crisis to whip up pubic panic. Finally, use that panic to push...
Jobs Report Treading Water—Barely
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » This morning's jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is somewhat encouraging news for job seekers, but it does not change what we've...
Jobs Report -- Not Really Even Treading Water
Robert Borosage says today's jobs report is "Treading Water." Isaiah Poole says "Treading Water—Barely." Robert Borosage, The February jobs report showing an increase of 192,000 jobs, with increased employment in virtually all sectors, provides welcome news. But don’t...
Scott Walker Down the Rat Hole with the Palace Guard
The Wisconsin State Capitol has erupted in a torrent of lawlessness this week that schoolchildren will be reading about for years. No, I don't mean rowdy protests resulting in mass arrests. Even though some 300,000 people have visited the capitol in the last two...
Who Says Grow Jobs Before Cutting Spending Everyone
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » This week, yet another poll showed the public puts creating jobs ahead of deficit reduction for the "top priority of the federal government." Are...
Jobs Report Treading Water
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » The February jobs report showing an increase of 192,000 jobs, with increased employment in virtually all sectors, provides welcome news. But...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/4/2011
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: "Grow Jobs Before...
