by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 7, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
Today's unemployment report from the Labor Department is another in a string of disappointments for the unemployed. It shows that the U.S. economy created only 113,000 jobs – well below most economists' expectations – with the unemployment rate at 6.6 percent. It...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 5, 2014 | Progressive Vision
[fve]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbCcTeV2PUM&feature=youtu.be&t=30m[/fve] When Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., announced last week that he will be retiring from Congress, progressives lamented the loss of a great liberal champion, a product of the political ferment of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 31, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
It has now been 34 days since the first wave of long-term unemployed Americans saw their weekly jobless benefits cut off. And it will be at least another three days of waiting before Congress makes the first step toward ending this travesty. News reports from the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 30, 2014 | Progressive Vision
President Obama today traveled to a General Electric engine manufacturing plant in Waukesha County, Wis., to promote his job training initiatives. One goal, of course, is to call attention to what the Obama administration is doing on what the public believes should be...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2014 | Populist Majority, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Two big developments are following quickly behind President Obama's soft-pedaling in his State of the Union address of his administration's attempt to fast-track a seriously damaging Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty through Congress. The most consequential action...
