by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Senate Republicans have unveiled their new Jobs Through Growth Act. This time it's different. Read on and see why. Bill Scher, in this morning's News To Media: Republicans Have Not Answered Obama's Call For An Actual Jobs Plan, writes that the new jobs plan fails the...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
He will not be the GOP nominee, but Herman Cain is on a roll. In Cain, the GOP appears to have finally found it's "Great Black-or-Brown Hope." Bobby Jindal looked like a promising candidate for a hot minute or two, before his abysmal State of the Union response. Then...
by Bill Scher | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy
One week after the President admonished Republicans for lacking a serious alternative to his American Jobs Act, Senate Republicans introduced what they call a "jobs" bill yesterday. ABC News, the Washington Post and others reported on this development as if this meant...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The Take Back The American Dream conference opened Tuesday by discussing the Contract for the American Dream. Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change began by saying that "there is a movement in America today and it’s not the Tea Party, it is the American...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog
Thousands rally to defend worker rights in Wisconsin, then nearly a million force a referendum in Ohio to repeal a similar assault. Tens of thousands fill congressional town meetings to demand "Jobs, not Cuts" in August. Over 100,000 join in vetting provisions for a...
