by Robert Borosage | Jul 6, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Today’s jobs numbers reinforce what we already know about this economy: The growth is too slow; the jobs created too few. Last month’s 80,000 additional jobs does not keep pace with the number of new workers coming into the economy. We are essentially limping in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog, Economy
It looks as if Congress got our message on the need to pass, without right-wing poison pills, a two-year transportation jobs bill. Our essential demand was that the House adopt a bipartisan bill passed by the Senate, rather than an ideologically extreme and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy
A Senate-House conference committee is scheduled to meet today to hammer out differences between the two chambers on what is likely to be the most substantive jobs bill the Congress could pass this year: a surface transportation reauthorization bill. The best thing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There are reports that Congress is at last about to reach a deal on a transportation bill, exactly 1,001 days after the expiration of the last transportation reauthorization bill that Congress passed. What's still unclear is what kind of deal this will be. The right...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy
When we had democracy, We, the People made the rules and we ran our country and our economy for our benefit. Now that we are a plutocracy things are different. The reason our elites are not doing anything to fix the economy is because from their viewpoint, things are...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 22, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Will Mitt Romney create jobs and help our economy, or will he just take us back to the Bush-era, send-jobs-to-China destruction that made him rich? With Romney there is no way to connect what he says with what he means or might do. So we are forced to read tea leaves...
