by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 12, 2009 | Blog
Beware of CEOs who feel your pain. These days, that's not easy. They seem to be just about everywhere. With the economy in free-fall, CEOs all across the United States have begun waging a veritable empathy offensive. From Wall Street to America’s ultimate Main Street...
by Bill Scher | Jan 9, 2009 | Blog
Crossfire from his own party! Key Democrats blast Obama stimulus plan! Political wrangling bogs down economic stimulus plan! At odds! Doubts arise! Such is the traditional media interpretation of the policy deliberations going on between the incoming Obama...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 9, 2009 | Blog
Let history be clear on one point when it comes to Bush's mismanagement of the economy: Since January 2001, the month George W. Bush took office, the number of unemployed people has increased more than 84 percent. That statistic is based on seasonally-adjusted data...
by Bill Scher | Jan 8, 2009 | Blog
In President-elect Barack Obama's major economic address today, he laid out one dozen key planks of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, including initiatives to: 1. "double the production of alternative energy in the next three years" 2. "modernize more than...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 8, 2009 | Blog
Today, President-elect Barack Obama laid out the framework for his economic recovery plan and made the case for why Congress must "move as quickly as possible on behalf of the American people" to get a recovery plan passed, "working weekends if necessary," he added,...
by Eric Lotke | Jan 8, 2009 | Blog
There were no theatrics. No single women came in to protest life’s travails, no displaced workers told of the factory shut down. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic Steering and Policy Committee Forum was government as it should be. Serious people hard at...