by Robert Borosage | Apr 21, 2010 | Blog, Economy
This post is part of the two-week long Virtual Summit on Fiscal and Economic Responsibility for People Who Did Not Wreck the Economy, hosted by Campaign for America's Future. The drumbeat about deficits has reached deafening levels. The president warns about "out of...
by Tula Connell | Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Donald Trump knows a few things about making money. The first step: You need a job. But a job is something more than 17 million of America’s workers don’t have. In a recent CNN interview, Trump says one big way this country can create jobs is by...
by Bill Scher | Apr 6, 2010 | Blog, Economy
When Congress returns from its recess on Monday, it won't have much time if it wants to create more jobs this year. Generally speaking, it takes about six months for increased public investment to make an impact on the economy. So if Congress passed major jobs...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 6, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
The Obama administration appears to have backed off from pressuring China to revalue its currency, for now, likely in exchange for diplomatic concessions including helping to pressure Iran on nukes. Chinese currency revaluation is about jobs, because currently China...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Moments after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report that the economy produced 162,000 jobs in March, this statement was issued on Capitol Hill: "“Any report showing that the economy added jobs is clearly a better alternative to one showing that it lost...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 1, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Our economy is not structured to produce enough jobs. Tomorrow's jobs report is expected to show as many as 200,000 jobs created in March, but a lot of that is temporary Census hires, and even 200,000 jobs created is still 2-300,000 fewer jobs than number of new...
