Economy
The Publics Wishes On Economy Are Kept Out Of Media
Have you seen the People's Budget discussed in the media? Nope. Have you heard that we need to be more "business friendly" by cutting taxes on the rich and cut the things We, the People do for each other? Yep. Did you know that polls show the public overwhelmingly...
A Simple Plan To Fix The Jobs Emergency -- And The Economy Too
We have a jobs emergency. We have a stagnant economy. We are falling behind in economic competitiveness. We have developed a terrible concentration of income and wealth. We can address all of these at once. Robert Kuttner, writing in The Economic Relapse at the...
Its Now Indisputable We Have A Jobs Crisis
Now can we agree that there is a jobs crisis? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an anemic number of new jobs created in May, 54,000. In other words, we're moving backward in terms of putting Americans back to work, as indicated by the uptick in the unemployment...
Republicans Announce Jobs Plan -- This Time Its Different
Republicans announced something they called a "jobs plan" today. This time it's different. It really is. This time it really will create jobs instead of just handing even more money to a few at the top at the expense of the rest of us. You might not believe this...
Americas Real Deficit Is A Moral Deficit
How can we make sense of the spectacle that's been unfolding across the American political landscape? Politicians in Wisconsin, Ohio and a dozen other states are trying to take away workers' right to organize and bargain for a better life. But that's not all. In...
Hoyer Blows A Chance To Advance A Jobs Agenda—Even His Own
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer laid out his bottom-line principles for how he believed the deficit should be addressed in a speech today before the Bipartisan Policy Institute. None of the five elements he listed address what voters say is the No. 1 economic problem:...
Actually The Rich Dont Create Jobs We Do
You hear it again and again, variation after variation on a core message: if you tax rich people it kills jobs. You hear about "job-killing tax hikes," or that "taxing the rich hurts jobs," "taxes kill jobs," "taxes take money out of the economy, "if you tax the rich...
Deconstructing the Paul Ryan Sound Bite
Real policy wonks bore people. The phony wonk from Wisconsin now driving Congress seduces, with a patter that leaves our wealthy almost completely disappeared. Rep. Paul Ryan from Wisconsin revels in his rep, inside the beltway, as America’s ultimate...
The Post Bombards Readers With Misinformation About Jobs and the Economy
The Washington Post once again showed why it is known as "Fox on 15th Street," running an editorial with the subhead, "tackling the specter of structural unemployment," which essentially offers nothing to address the problem. The piece got off to a...
Jobs Report Give Pink Slip To So Be It Conservatism
It is amazing, given that we've been fighting a three-alarm unemployment fire with water buckets the past few months, that there is any positive news at all in the unemployment front. But there was a surprising net increase in 244,000 new jobs in April—a sliver of...
