by Dave Johnson | Oct 18, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Did Mitt Romney really "create 100,000 jobs" with Staples? Simple answer: only if no one else was selling office supplies, stationery, etc. before Staples came along. What Staples did was force many competing stationery, office supply and computer stores out of...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 18, 2012 | Blog, Climate, Economy
Mitt Romney's "binder full of women" comment has gone viral, which is pretty entertaining but has had the unfortunate side effect of crowding the phrase "wind jobs." That's a real loss, because that term could become a very useful part of our political vocabulary....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 16, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Democracy Corps distributed a polling memo Monday that put its finger squarely on a frustration among progressives with President Obama's campaign for re-election that had been simmering long before his disastrous first debate. Simply put, Obama is failing to...
by Bill Scher | Oct 16, 2012 | Blog, Economy
If you go to MittRomney.com/JobsPlan you see an ad in which Romney says: Let me tell you how I will create 12 million jobs … First, my energy independence policy means more than 3 million new jobs, many of them in manufacturing. My tax reform plan to lower...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 9, 2012 | Blog, Economy
In Wednesday's debate Mitt Romney repeated his claim that cutting individual and corporate income taxes creates jobs. But when you look at what actually happened, the periods when we had the highest tax rates were the periods we had the greatest job and economic...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 5, 2012 | Blog, Economy
The September jobs report is more of the same. We witness slow growth, with job creation barely at levels needed to keep up with workforce growth. And the economy is headed into ever more severe headwinds – Europe’s recession is already reflected in manufacturing job...
