by Bill Scher | Feb 12, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The Nation published this week a fascinating report of a new model of worker cooperative that could attack the jobs crisis and the climate crisis, called "The Cleveland Model." Cleveland's "Evergreen" network of large-scale co-ops, backed with a multi-million dollar...
by Bill Scher | Feb 11, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Sens. Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley announced a bipartisan agreement for a "jobs" bill, tracking the earlier draft versions which Sen. Jon Kyl accurately described as not really a jobs bill but an exercise in "extending a bunch of tax policy and related items that we...
by Bill Scher | Feb 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The possibility exists for the Senate to pass a bipartisan jobs bill. It just won't do much to create jobs. The Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, typically a fountain of misinformation, gets this one right in Bloomberg: "Kyl ... said Democrats shouldn’t advertise the...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Americans are angry -- Wall Street has been bailed out, and there's no sign of job growth on Main Street. We know this is important because Sarah Palin's poll tested tea party speech featured it. We know its important because that was the clear message of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog, Economy
On Friday, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report that another 20,000 Americans had lost their jobs in January, the right-wing spin machine immediately unleashed one of their tried-and-true talking points: that the reason the economy is not creating...
by Bill Scher | Feb 5, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Yesterday I noted that we 402,000 new jobs a month, for three years if we are to simply return to the level of employment we had before the recession. The latest monthly employment report showed a slight dip in the unemployment rate and underemployment rate, but also...
