Economy
Transportation Jobs -- People Who GO To Work, Too
When you think about building a new mass transit system, or funding (and cuts) top operate bus and rail lines you tend to think about the construction, manufacturing, operating and maintenance jobs created (or cut). That's a lot of jobs, but those jobs are almost...
Suffering From Deficit Allergies
The following was originally published by Politico This spring, much of Washington is afflicted with deficit allergies. The Senate had to break a filibuster just to pass a one-month extension of unemployment insurance without “paying for it.” House Blue...
The Big Fix (Hold On To Your Wallets)
This post is part of the two-week long Virtual Summit on Fiscal and Economic Responsibility for People Who Did Not Wreck the Economy, hosted by Campaign for America's Future. The drumbeat about deficits has reached deafening levels. The president warns about "out of...
Trump: Tax China, Create Jobs in America
Donald Trump knows a few things about making money. The first step: You need a job. But a job is something more than 17 million of America’s workers don’t have. In a recent CNN interview, Trump says one big way this country can create jobs is by...
Congress Has About One Week To Create More Jobs This Year
When Congress returns from its recess on Monday, it won't have much time if it wants to create more jobs this year. Generally speaking, it takes about six months for increased public investment to make an impact on the economy. So if Congress passed major jobs...
Trading Jobs For Diplomacy?
The Obama administration appears to have backed off from pressuring China to revalue its currency, for now, likely in exchange for diplomatic concessions including helping to pressure Iran on nukes. Chinese currency revaluation is about jobs, because currently China...
Jobs Report: A Call To Action
Moments after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report that the economy produced 162,000 jobs in March, this statement was issued on Capitol Hill: "“Any report showing that the economy added jobs is clearly a better alternative to one showing that it lost...
Pressure On Wages As Well As Jobs
Our economy is not structured to produce enough jobs. Tomorrow's jobs report is expected to show as many as 200,000 jobs created in March, but a lot of that is temporary Census hires, and even 200,000 jobs created is still 2-300,000 fewer jobs than number of new...
Focus, Focus, Focus: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
The economy is said to be recovering, but the people are not. The jobs are gone, and haven't started to come back. Twenty-five million people are in need of full-time work. Incomes are stagnant; more and more are losing health care. Even the uptick in jobs that will...
