Economy
GOP Leaders Cave Cut Deeper Kill Jobs Move Closer To Government Shutdown
Yesterday, House Republican leaders tried to tamp down a conservative revolt within the caucus, explaining that to support deeper cuts than initially proposed would mean destroying jobs. NYT reported: [House Appropriations Char Hal] Rogers and other Republicans warned...
Balance Trade—Make Jobs
Summary Our present severe recession, though officially over, lends urgency to tackling U.S. trade issues. Without the announcement effect of a trade bill, manufacturers will continue to shutter factories and move production overseas. President Obama’s goal of...
Obama Bets Big On High-Speed Rail Jobs Can He Make The Case
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » After President Barack Obama first invested in a national high-speed rail network, concerns persisted among some rail advocates that not...
Why We Need A Jobs Summit
To break the inside-the-Beltway consensus that a robust, government-led effort to lower the unemployment rate this year should not be on the table for legislative debate, the Campaign for America's Future this week announced that it is convening a "Summit on Jobs and...
Obama To Chamber Be Patriotic And Move Jobs Back To America
President Obama today appealed to the patriotism of the members of the Chamber of Commerce to begin investing in America again, to begin bringing factories and jobs back and to begin sharing the gains of our economy with the American people. Saying that we cannot go...
Jobs Los Angeles 3010 Initiative
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been pushing what he calls the 30/10 Initiative. The idea is simple: take all of local transportation projects around the country that are planned for the next 30 years and get them done in the next 10 years instead. This...
Odd Jobs Report
Today's monthly jobs report was odd. There were few new jobs, but the unemplopyment rate dropped again as even more people gave up looking for work. This month they blame the weather for the lack of government action on job-creation or helping state and local...
Jobs Income Crisis As Government Captured By Interests
Earlier in Jobs Crisis In Real World ... Just Not In DC I wrote about the gap between DC/Wall Street thinking about the jobs crisis and reality in the rest of the country. Summary: Our government is not addressing out problems because it is captured by interests: Out...
Jobs Crisis In Real World Just Not In DC
Who is our economy for? Who is our government for? For 30 years we have been undergoing a transition from "We, the People" democratic government to a plutocracy run by and for the wealthy. One indicator of this transition is the way the DC Elite respond to...
99 And Counting Where Are the Damn Jobs
While the rest of us as asking "Where are the damn jobs?", Republicans are apparently focused on everything else but jobs. Republicans won dozens of elections last fall after claiming Democrats had focused too little on creating jobs. Now GOP lawmakers stand...
