Economy
Stop Blocking Infrastructure Jobs!
Whatever the March unemployment numbers are today, they are far, far from robust enough to employ everyone who needs work any time soon. (Please, surprise me!)
There is something that can be done to really improve things. This something also gives Republicans a chance to show they aren't just sabotaging the economy to improve their own election prospects. Let's see if they go along.
The 1% Strike Back
In 2010, as the economy began its slow recovery from the Great Recession, a new study shows the richest 1 percent of Americans captured a staggering 93 percent of all income growth, while the incomes of most Americans stagnated.
Ninety-three percent. Occupy that. The 1 percent are back.
JOBS Act The Insanity Of The Regulatory Race To The Bottom
The plot of the movie "War Games" (1983) involves a slacker hacker (played by Matthew Broderick) who starts playing the game Global Thermonuclear War with Joshua, a Department of Defense (DoD) supercomputer that has been given partial control by DoD of our nuclear forces.
Whats New About GOP Budget Part II No Attempt To Pretend It Creates Jobs
Last year, when the House Republican leadership introduced its budget, they tried to pretend that giant tax cuts for the wealthy and the obliteration of most government functions would create jobs.
The So-Called JOBS Act Crowdfunding Good Deregulation Bad
The Senate is considering the House-passed, typically-misnamed "JOBS Act." This act dramatically cuts regulations and disclosure requirements for companies that want to sell stock. As written it opens the door to the usual scammers, fleecers and fraudsters that feast on deregulation.
Which Lobby Wrote the JOBS (Jivers Opportunity to Bilk Suckers) Act Solving a Bipartisan Mystery
Whenever Washington politicians get together on something "bipartisan," there's a very good chance it's a lobbyist-driven initiative - one that will enrich the lobbyists'' patrons, generate campaign funds for pliant politicians, and stick it pretty much everyone else.
Want to know where a "bipartisan" bill comes from? Follow the money.
Scene of the Crime
Fixing What Is Wrong With Our Economy
The following is an official statement from the AFL-CIO Executive Council.
The Democrats Jobs Dilemma Celebration vs Call to Action
Perhaps my reaction to the latest unemployment statistics is colored by the fact that I'm reading them in Africa, far from the comfortable familiarity of Washington, New York, and California. There's nothing like the songs of unfamiliar birds as the sun rises over the hills of Pretoria to accentuate the strangeness of conventional Beltway wisdom.
Jobs Report Not A Time For Right-Wing Austerity
There is modestly good news for jobseekers in the February jobs report today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the economy creating 227,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate holding steady at 8.3 percent. But once again the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress would be well advised to resist the urge to crow […]
Good Jobs First: No Grand Bargain Without A Jobs Trigger
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Poll after poll shows that voters are concerned most of all about jobs and the economy. Yet in Washington and on the campaign trail, attention has turned to deficits and how to get our books in order.
