by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 11, 2011 | Blog
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter are having some success in creating jobs for their residents in a tough economic climate. And Republicans in Congress are working to take away the tools they are using to put people to work. Both...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 10, 2011 | Blog
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has declared this week "jobs week" in his city, and he has been using it as an opportunity to announce a series...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 9, 2011 | Blog, Economy
To break the inside-the-Beltway consensus that a robust, government-led effort to lower the unemployment rate this year should not be on the table for legislative debate, the Campaign for America's Future this week announced that it is convening a "Summit on Jobs and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy
In the much-buzzed-about Sunday New York Times Magazine article by Peter Baker on President Obama's search for an "exciting" jobs plan that could be offered in his State of the Union address next week, a White House adviser describes Obama as "really frustrated that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
There isn't much cause for gloating in today's unemployment report, with the number of jobs created during December—103,000—being lower than most analysts expected. But, more critically, we're not even treading water on creating a sufficient number of "breadwinning...
