by Dave Johnson | Sep 8, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Speaking in Ohio today President Obama described his new jobs and economic programs. (Full text here.) The two major pieces of Mr. Obama’s package — expanding and making permanent a popular credit for businesses’ research and experimentation expenses, and allowing...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 8, 2010 | Blog, Economy
President Obama unveiled a "Roads, Railways and Runways" infrastructure proposal today in Milwaukee. The proposal is for a six-year, $50 billion plan to create jobs by improving and expanding 150,000 miles of the nation's roads, 4,000 miles of railways and 150 miles...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Economy
I am attending the National Clean Energy Summit 3.0: Investing in American Jobs conference in Last Vegas, hosted by Senator Harry Reid (who is spending the day here hosting this). The Summit is put on by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. This is a quick...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2010 | Blog
If you had a company and could make people work for free, keeping all the proceeds just for yourself, you might do that. If you could. What’s stopping you? There are plenty of unemployed people in the country and in the world – more every day thanks to population...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The stimulus worked but was not enough. Here is the result: This is known as "the scariest jobs chart," from
