by Terrance Heath | Jun 18, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The unemployment crisis is startling to looking a lot like the gusher in the Gulf, except that where there may not be much political leaders can do about that, there are things that can be done about unemployment. The difference is that they are choosing not to do...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Oh, the irony. As Defense Secretary Robert Gates was on Capitol Hill today telling a Senate appropriations subcommittee that Congress has to approve a $33 billion supplemental war funding request by July 4 or else "we begin to have to do stupid things," the Senate did...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy
In his column concerning last month's jobs number, George Will does a nearly "Noonan-eque" job of spreading disorientation and doubt about what government should do— if anything — about chronic unemployment, delivering a simple-but-subtle...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Saying that the Obama "stimulus" was not big enough, conservatives are demanding that the government massively increase deficit spending to create badly-needed jobs. Newt Gingrich, at the conservative media outlet Human Events, calls for an Economic Freedom Act that...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 8, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Bob Borosage introduced Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, who said, "Saving and creating jobs is the path to reducing the deficit." Progressive tradition in America means the same today as for many years. It is the promise of a society built on what unites us not divides...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 8, 2010 | Blog, Economy
What if the nation's jobless crisis received the same 24-7 media attention that the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is now receiving? That is the question that comes to mind as several progressive leaders addressed the nation's unemployment catastrophe at...
