Economy

The House of Representatives, which returns from its summer recess today, and the Senate, which returned Monday, really only has one legislative priority it should be focused on before members return to the campaign trail: Treat the jobs emergency as the emergency...

Sometimes job cuts have a way of sneaking up on you -- a few teachers here, a police officer there and another fire department that is not open when you need them. But as every EMT knows, a thousand small cuts can still kill the patient. One group is pushing back...

The Chamber of Commerce is rolling out its “jobs and economy” political initiative today. As Politico reports, the blitz is “designed to drive voters toward '5 Questions to Ask Your Candidates,' to be distributed by mail and online to millions of voters.” Here are the...

Speaking in Ohio today President Obama described his new jobs and economic programs. (Full text here.) The two major pieces of Mr. Obama’s package — expanding and making permanent a popular credit for businesses’ research and experimentation expenses, and allowing...

President Obama unveiled a "Roads, Railways and Runways" infrastructure proposal today in Milwaukee. The proposal is for a six-year, $50 billion plan to create jobs by improving and expanding 150,000 miles of the nation's roads, 4,000 miles of railways and 150 miles...

I am attending the National Clean Energy Summit 3.0: Investing in American Jobs conference in Last Vegas, hosted by Senator Harry Reid (who is spending the day here hosting this). The Summit is put on by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. This is a quick...

American corporate CEOs, an eye-opening new study documents, have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs. If you started last year on the payroll at Verizon or Alcoa or Boeing or IBM, you may have found yourself...

The stimulus worked but was not enough. Here is the result: This is known as "the scariest jobs chart," from

We now have hard evidence of what we have been seeing on an anecdotal basis as the anemic economic "recovery" continues to muddle forward: The workers who lost their jobs in the Great Recession are entering a job market in which the new jobs being created are at...