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 Bill Scher | Sep 8, 2010 | Blog
We know the pathetic disaster response to Hurricane Katrina by the Bush administration was rooted in anti-government, pro-privatization conservative ideology. President Bush removed FEMA from the cabinet, repeatedly appointed FEMA chiefs with no disaster management...
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 Richard Eskow | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Peter Orszag's maiden voyage as a New York Times columnist resonates with twenty years of failed economic policy. It's a grab bag of Robert Rubin's Greatest Hits, remixed by a younger DJ for new audiences. It's all there: The mythologizing of the markets. The...
by Eric Lotke | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog
The August unemployment data are out. The unemployment rate was "about unchanged" at 9.6 percent,” says the BLS press release. Teenagers "showed little change" at 26.3 percent, as did African Americans (16.3 percent) and Hispanics (12.0 percent). You can feel the...
by Bill Scher | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog
Most of the chatter around poll numbers you'll hear over the next several weeks will be about whether either body of Congress changes hands. But some of these poll questions actually ask about what the country wants Congress to do. And it's crystal clear Americans...
