by Eric Lotke | Feb 5, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Two items from my inbox: 1. The Economic Policy Institute has a new report detailing the positive impacts of transportation infrastructure spending. A $34.3 billion jobs package will create approximately 480,000 direct and indirect jobs. The report includes...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
We expect January’s unemployment numbers, to be released Friday, to show that while Wall Street bankers continue to thrive, American workers continue to suffer under a deep recession. The numbers should serve as a stark reminder to Congress that the time to act...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 3, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Just one of the many conservative failures cost 1.4 million jobs, all by itself. And never mind how much borrowing it caused. In Macroeconomic effects of Chinese mercantilism, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman took a look at how many jobs have been lost...
by Bill Scher | Feb 3, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The Senate leadership appears to be on the verge of proposing a jobs package significantly smaller than the $154B bill that has cleared the House, even though everybody agrees even the House bill is not big enough to reverse the 7 million jobs already lost in the...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 1, 2010 | Blog, Economy
If you hope hard enough, and look hard enough, the jobs will appear. At least, that's the thrust of Mark Lange's recent column in The Christian Science Monitor When we imagine that government - and even companies - "create" jobs, we're missing half the story: the...
