by Robert Borosage | Jul 31, 2013 | The Jobs Challenge
President Obama took his case for jobs to Chattanooga, Tenn., yesterday, with an Amazon warehouse as a discordant backdrop. The president repeated his powerful case that to rebuild the middle class, we need a serious long-term strategy that includes investments vital...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 30, 2013 | The Jobs Challenge
The President visits Chattanooga today to continue to promote his job-creation campaign. But Amazon? Really? Why is President Obama using Amazon to tout his ideas for job creation? President Welcomed To Chattanooga Today in Chattanooga the President visits an Amazon...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 30, 2013 | The Jobs Challenge
The cliché is alluring: A rising tide lifts all boats. Former Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush promised it would be true as they cut taxes on the rich. If the rich got richer, Reagan and Bush contended, some of their extra cash would trickle down...
by Dean Baker | Jul 30, 2013 | The Jobs Challenge
Last week President Obama gave a speech at Knox College in Illinois in which he announced plans to return his focus to the economy. The agenda he outlined centered on policies to rebuild the middle class leading to growth "from the middle out," as he put it. The basic...
by Jane Yurechko | Jul 29, 2013 | Student Debt Relief, This Is The GOP
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) thinks that it is not Congress’s job to keep college affordable. That’s what she said at a House Education and the Workforce Committee markup last week of a GOP-backed bill that would prevent the U.S. Department of Education from enforcing...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 29, 2013 | The Jobs Challenge
The President is pushing a jobs agenda to grow the economy "from the midddle out." Insider DC is mocking him because the ideas -- infrastructure, American manufacturing, fund our schools -- are not "new." Here is what else isn't new: budget cuts take money out of the...
