by Bill Scher | Aug 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Senate Clears State Aid Jobs Bill, As Weak Jobs Data Continues BREAKING: Weak jobs numbers this AM from Labor Dept. "Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 131,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.5 percent ... Federal government employment...
by Bill Scher | Aug 5, 2010 | Blog
Today, the President visited his third American auto plants in recent weeks, highlighting the fact that all three major American automakers are now profitable after government intervention and restructuring of the industry. Also today, the Medicare trustees reported...
by Bill Scher | Aug 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. State Aid, Boost For Jobs, Secures...
by Bill Scher | Aug 4, 2010 | Blog
In an article for The Daily Beast, economist James K. Galbraith makes the case against cutting Social Security and for expanding it, leveraging the fiscally sound retirement insurance program to help alleviate the jobs crisis: Cutting Social Security would simply...
by Bill Scher | Aug 4, 2010 | Blog
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today finally overcame the conservative filibuster blocking aid to fiscally distressed states, securing the votes of the not-as-insane Republican senators from Maine, giving him a 61-vote supermajority to
