Economy
Wisconsin & The GOPs War on the Middle Class
In a post about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's bid to strip public employee unions of collective bargaining — the most important and effective tool for protecting workers — Van Jones wrote: If a foreign power conspired to inflict this much damage on America's first...
John Boehners So Be It Economics
With a turn of phrase that ranks right up there with "I'm alright, Jack," "We care about the small people," and "Let them eat cake," House Speaker John Boehner voiced the Republican response to concerns about the consequences the GOP's...
Conservative Job Wrecking Crew Strikes Again FL Gov Kills 24000 High-Speed Rail Jobs
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Yesterday, Speaker John Boehner didn't shed one of many tears at the prospect of his proposing spending cuts destroying 200,000 jobs. Today,...
Succor the Rich Suffer the Child
The blizzard of budget numbers flurrying around Washington is disorienting. Republicans are talking about cuts in the next seven months. The president's budget proposes cuts in FY 2012 that begins in October. But both paint the same picture: deficits are high, cuts...
Republicans Are CUTTING Jobs Programs
The country has been waiting for the promised action on jobs and unemployment since the new Congress came in. Nothing yet. We've had the show-vote on health care, we've had abortion, we've had silly conservative fluff bill after sily conservative fluff bill, but...
China Trade Gap Breaks Record Destroys Jobs
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Did you see the Chrysler Super Bowl ad? Advertisers understand that Americans are hungry to be able to buy American-made goods again. And...
President Antes Up 15M New Jobs GOP Folds
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » There's a risk that the budget battle descends into a race to the bottom to see which party can cut the most. But that is not an inevitability....
Conservatives Closing The Roads To Jobs And Recovery
LISTEN Deborah Weinstein of the Coalition for Human Needs explains how irresponsible federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives in Congress will ultimately make the economy worse. The federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives on Capitol Hill are not...
Jobs No Narrow Rape Definition Yes
The new Congress was elected by promising things to voters, but now in office they are doing different things. It is as if they said what they needed to say to get votes, but had a plan to do something else all along. The big question on everyone's mind: where is the...
The Depressing Phony War in Washington
There were three of us on Warren Olney’s "To the Point" public radio program, one of the more enlightened shows on NPR. But the program, addressing the coming debate on spending cuts, quickly descended into Beltway babble. Stephen Moore, the gleeful right-wing...
