by Dave Johnson | Mar 1, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Last week the Washington Post ran an op-ed with the curious headline, “The Green Jobs Myth.” Oil and coal lobbyists everywhere, well-aware that most people only read headlines and a few paragraphs at most, were giving each other high-fives. You see, a headline like...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 24, 2010 | Blog, Economy
"Yesterday, we took a step, a strong first step toward putting Americans back to work, but ... it's a first step. This is the beginning, not the end," Senate Majority Leaded Harry Reid said, hailing the pending passage of a $15 billion jobs bill, as five...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 23, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The warnings are dire. Just yesterday, for example: Recession Tightens Grip on State Tax Revenues, The recession can now claim another troublesome record: state tax collections shrank at the end of 2009 for a fifth consecutive quarter, the longest period of continuing...
by Bill Scher | Feb 23, 2010 | Blog, Economy
On a blogger conference call earlier today, representatives from AFSCME, Economic Policy Institute and Progressive States called for a major grassroots push to secure critical aid for fiscally distressed state governments and help tackle the jobs crisis. While aid to...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2010 | Blog, Economy
One legacy of the Reagan tax cuts is that we stopped maintaining - and never mind modernizing - our infrastructure. As a result there is a LOT of work that needs doing. And there are a very, very large number of unemployed people. Hmmm... There are so many more ways...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Thanks to the "stimulus plan" and rising demand from infrastructure work, a new steel rolling mill is opening in Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown area to get 350 more jobs when new steel tube plant opens, The new facility, which will be more than 1 million square-feet,...
