Economy
While You're Compromising On Climate, Don't Forget About Jobs
The tripartisan trio of Senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham are busily shopping around a draft climate protection bill to their colleagues in hopes of securing 60 votes. Politico reports today that the current draft is "it’s chock-full of sweeteners...
Find Out How MANY Jobs Have Been Lost To China Where YOU Live
Everyone knows that we have lost a lot of jobs to China since 2001. Now you can find out exactly how many, and where. The Alliance for American Manufacturing and Economic Policy Institute released a report today titled, “Unfair China Trade Costs Local Jobs” by EPI's...
Ten Million Jobs Needed - Ten Million Jobs That Need Doing
Dot: No net job gains since 2000. 8 million jobs lost in the recession. Never mind jobs for the 86,000 new people entering the labor force every month... Dot: According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) “congested highways, overflowing sewers, and...
Budget Cuts in Perspective: A Tale of Two Ikes
Local government elected leaders are claiming we have no alternative to king-size budget cuts. But their numbers don’t add up. You won’t find many suburbs in the United States more affluent than the burbs that ring Washington, D.C. In fact, six of the ten...
The African-American Community Needs A "Jobs Surge"
The nation is facing a jobs crisis, but “crisis” doesn’t begin to tell the story in the African-American community. “Five-alarm emergency” comes closer. A report by the Joint Economic Committee released today underscores the severity of African-American unemployment...
It Is Time To Put Our Foot Down: Ten Steps We Can Take to Stop Closing Factories and Eliminating Jobs
The economy is still getting worse more slowly. We lost "only" 36,000 jobs last month. We need to create 11 million new jobs just to get back to where we were before "free-market" conservatives took over our government and dismanted the protections and regulations...
This Jobs Bill Could Work
Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., introduced a bill today that is a meaningful response to the nation's jobs crisis. It still falls short of the need, but it would accomplish far more than the anemic measures that have been served up by Congress so far. The legislation...
Listen Up, Tom DeLay: Nine Jobseekers For Every Job
Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay appeared to be dancing with the stars in his head Sunday when he said on CNN that "there is an argument to be made" that an extension unemployment benefits, such as the one that conservative Republican Sen. Jim Bunning...
Say It Ain't So, Joe: Joe Biden Talks to Labor about Jobs
Vice President Joe Biden defended the administration in a speech to America's labor leaders, gathered at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meetings in Orlando, Florida this week. Mentioning individual union presidents by name -- including some not in the room --he...
No Accountability in NY or DC: $15 Billion for Jobs, $20 Billion for Bonuses - and Dodd Still Wants to Compromise
When I worked in the Financial District back in the nineties, the big-shot investment types loved to talk about accountability. Almost all male, they loved macho posturing. They got big money because they took big risks, they'd say. They were the Danger Boys. They had...
