Economy
The Jobs Deficit: What Can Be Done Now
In his column concerning last month's jobs number, George Will does a nearly "Noonan-eque" job of spreading disorientation and doubt about what government should do— if anything — about chronic unemployment, delivering a simple-but-subtle...
Conservatives Call For Massive Deficits To Create JOBS
Saying that the Obama "stimulus" was not big enough, conservatives are demanding that the government massively increase deficit spending to create badly-needed jobs. Newt Gingrich, at the conservative media outlet Human Events, calls for an Economic Freedom Act that...
Liveblogging AFN Press Conference On JOBS
Bob Borosage introduced Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, who said, "Saving and creating jobs is the path to reducing the deficit." Progressive tradition in America means the same today as for many years. It is the promise of a society built on what unites us not divides...
The Unemployment Catastrophe: You, Too, Should Be Infuriated
What if the nation's jobless crisis received the same 24-7 media attention that the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is now receiving? That is the question that comes to mind as several progressive leaders addressed the nation's unemployment catastrophe at...
Only 20,000 New Non-Census Jobs In May! Jobs Bills NEEDED!
Evan as Washington ignores jobs bills and slashes help for long-term unemployed workers the economy may be starting to fall back. The economy added 431,000 jobs in May, but 411,000 of those were temporary census workers. Compare this to last month when businesses...
Tomorrow's Jobs Report Will Look Great But Includes Census Hires
Today ADP reported that private-sector jobs may have increased by 55,000 last month. (ADP is able to make this estimate because the company processes 1 of every 6 paychecks nationwide.) Meanwhile the Labor Department reported that initial claims for unemployment...
The Jobs Deficit & The Breaking Point, Pt. 2
The change agenda at America's Future NOW! REGISTER NOW for AFN 2010 The deficit fear mongers are right that America faces a deficit that threatens to cripple our economy and foreclose on the futures of millions of Americans. They just have the wrong deficit. That's...
The Jobs Deficit: Tell Congress To Act
The jobs deficit is our No. 1 domestic economic priority, but today members of both houses of Congress behaved as if it's no big deal. The House was scheduled today to vote on a jobs and tax extenders bill after Democratic leaders cut back the size of the bill to...
The Jobs Deficit & The Breaking Point, Pt 1.
Like the college professor he is, Dr. Bernard Anderson, member of the National Urban League President's Council of Economic Advisors, came to this weeks "Putting America Back To Work" forum with three points he wanted those gathered to take away with them....
Emergency Alert: Blue Dogs Impeding Action On Jobs
Even though House Democrats have cut back on the size of a jobs and tax extenders bill Thursday night, the legislation is still facing uncertainty in both the House and the Senate at this hour. Congress Daily reports that the Blue Dog coalition of conservative...
