by Dave Johnson | Mar 10, 2011 | Blog, Economy
• "I can’t remember when we decided to downsize our middle class. When was it we decided to downgrade our living standards? I don’t remember that!" • " 'Jobs jobs jobs,' doesn’t mean people should need 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet." • "Our economy...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 10, 2011 | Blog
"It's the economy, moron!" That was pollster Celinda Lake's succinct take, at the Summit on Jobs & America's Future, this morning. Lake was there in 1992 when James Carville summed up the Clinton campaign's winning message in 1992, "It's the economy, stupid." In 1992,...
by Bill Scher | Mar 10, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The Summit on Jobs & America's Future is still underway, but here are the best Twitter posts from the conference, so far: @mpiscatella: @villaraigosa: I was a latch key kid my child care program was a library. we need to accelerate investment in infrastructure...
by Bill Scher | Mar 9, 2011 | Blog, Economy
By 3:30 PM ET, the U.S. Senate had voted on two competing government operations bill this fiscal year. Both would cut spending. One which would lead to a loss of as many as one million jobs. The other relatively mild bill would not cause as much pain, but certainly...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » The general reaction to last week's jobs report was positive toward the 222,000 private sector jobs that were created and dismissive of the fact...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 9, 2011 | Blog
At TPM, in Republicans Struggle To Square Spending Cuts With Job Losses, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explained why we need more stimulus: "If government spending would stimulate the economy, we'd be in the middle of a boom," he said. Now, look at this chart...
