Economy
Buy American Jobs
Efforts by those who never want to hear someone say, “Bye-bye American manufacturing,” converged coincidentally to make June Buy American month. First, at the forceful urging of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the Smithsonian on June 8 opened an all-American-made...
Jobs Its Past Time to Get Loud and Surly
"It's an employer's world," said Rebecca Penny, a 55-year-old widow who was laid off over a year ago from her job at a Chevrolet plant in Tennessee. "I lost my benefits the night I was laid off. Now I can't afford medicine. And I can only find minimum...
The Question For Tonights GOP Presidential Debaters Why Didnt The Bush Tax Cuts Create Jobs
Tonight is the first Republican presidential debate with all the top contenders planning to attend. And there is only one question I want to see asked: Why didn't the Bush tax cuts create any jobs? Every candidate on tonight's debate stage not only continues to...
When Will Obama Sound the Alarm About Jobs
The sudden weakening of the economic recovery is now undermining even the stock market. As usual, however, Wall Street is worried about profits and a possible double-dip recession. But what the press and the Obama administration have not adequately taken up is how...
Economists’ Moral Duty On Jobs
Originally published on the SCEPA Blog The Federal Reserve's Ben Bernanke could not avoid admitting this week that the American economic recovery was faltering. GDP growth of less than 2 percent annualized in the fourth quarter was a severe disappointment....
Executive Action on Jobs
Conservatives in Congress and their echo chamber have backed President Obama, and the American people, into a dangerous corner. Private sector job creation is desperately needed for our national recovery and to begin rebuilding the economic security of our people....
Dear Speaker Boehner Thanks for Quoting Me But You Left Out Jobs -- and Star Wars Movies
I never expected I'd be called upon to write an open letter to the Speaker of the House because he used my words in a misleading way. And I certainly never expected that letter to include detailed descriptions of the plot and weaponry used in the Star Wars movies. But...
If the President Wont Do Something About Jobs Who Will
When it comes to jobs, sometimes it seems as if the White House is from Mars and the middle class is from Venus. And Republicans act like they're from the Death Star, patrolling the economy in their Imperial Cruisers directing laser blasts at every job initiative they...
NYT Says Dont Protect Jobs Communities Economy Democracy What
The NY Times has an editorial on trade today, Keeping Protectionism at Bay. The editorial, written by well-paid New Yorkers living far from the devastated communities of the "rust belt," explains down to us that it is a bad thing to "protect" our jobs and our...
Past Trade Agreements Have Cut Jobs Wages And Democracy
Our trade agreements have pitted working people in countries that do not protect rights or people against the working people here who fought to win the protections of democracy. The result has been devastating to our communities, our economy and our democracy. America...
