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Reflecting on the Lost Decade: conservative economic policies, and how well they (didn't) work"There has been zero net job creation since December 1999," the WaPo piece explained. "No previous decade going back to the 1940s had job growth of less than 20 percent. Economic output rose at its slowest rate of any decade since the 1930s as well."
House Dems Muscle Over GOP, Pass Jobs Bill - CBS NewsDemocrats in the House Wednesday muscled through a year-end plan to create jobs, mixing about $50 billion for public works projects with another almost $50 billion for cash-strapped state and local governments.
Think the Democrats are going to step up and help the working class, unlike the Republicans who favored the rich? Think again. Here's a true story: I've owned a small business for the last three years and a half years.
Obama likely to back idea to use TARP funds to create jobsPresident Obama is likely to endorse during a speech about the economy next week using some of the government's $700 billion financial bailout for a new jobs-creation program, the White House said Friday.
Europeans, China Outpace U.S. on Corporate Tax ReductionsAt a time when job creation is the number one problem and a chief goal for Washington, D.C., many tax experts say U.S.
Obama Calls Stimulus s 'Side Issue,' Says Focus Is on Job Growth President Obama brushed off criticism over his administration's inaccurate reporting on job creation Wednesday, telling Fox News the accounting is an "inexact science" and that any errors are a "side issue" when compared with the goal of turning the economy around.
Rep. DeFazio : Fire " Timmy Giethner.Rep. Peter DeFazio called for the firing of President Barack Obama's top two economic aides on Wednesday for pursuing a recovery plan skewed too heavily towards Wall Street's favor.
More - Faulty Job Data on Government Web SiteThe Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee is demanding greater accountability from the the Obama administration after gross inaccuracies were found on a government Web site that tracks jobs purportedly saved or created by the $787 billion stimulus plan.
Again - Job Data Doubted: Local Agency Says 'It Was a Typo'An error in a stimulus job creation report, filed by the Belmont Metropolitan Housing Authority, was corrected but not before ABC News reported the inaccurate information.
It's been reported that out of the 12.2 trillion dollars committed, 2.5 trillion dollars or so has been injected into the U.S. economy during last 18 months by the federal government.
Stimulus job creation: a numbers game - St. Petersburg TimesThe public wanted pop from the federal stimulus, and the Florida Department of Transportation gave it to them.
Green Jobs-Green New York Act To Green One Million Homes, Create 14,000 Jobsexcerpt: "" In the early hours of September 10th, the New York State Senate passed a major bill championed by the Working Families Party to make energy efficiency upgrades to one million homes and businesses over the next five years.
For the past year we have listened to the jobs disappear month after month, one story worse than the next.
Obama, In Rich Irony, Can't Afford To Wage War On Nation's WealthyObama will discover that the rich hold the key to boosting tax receipts fast enough to close mammoth budget deficits while expanding health care and other government programs. A Tax Too Far
Sen. Babs Boxer's Arrogance Takes on Racial OvertonesSenator Barbara Boxer, who recently caused controversy with her snide and patronizing comments to a Brigadier General, has now once more displayed her arrogance, this time with with racial overtones.
Looking for signs of recovery in a local economy can be a tough task at times. The indicators are subtle. Positive signs of recovery can be discovered in reading the weekly classified section of a regional news paper. In this case, I am referring to THE REGISTER-GUARD.
In a recent article writen by A.P.'s Elaine Kurtenbach, it became apparent that the Chinese government may in fact have a better grasp on the world economy then the Obama administration does.
(Since I asked Senator Hutchison to explain her reasoning as to why tax cuts were superior to job creation, I have not had an answer. This is the latest missive to the esteemed senator requesting an explanation of her reasoning.) Dear Senator Hutchison,
I am one of those people that think as I drive. I know, I should be paying attention to the road, traffic lights etc. But driving has become second nature for me, and after hundreds of thousands of miles, one finds ample time for reflection.
Wisconsin state Web site to list job openings created by stimulus moneyContractors on projects funded by federal stimulus money will have to post their job openings to a state Web site.
Spanish Study Sparks Skepticism About Green Jobs - First 100 Days of Presidency - Politics FOXNews.comSpain finds shifting to "green energy" costs 2.2 jobs for every new one created. The reasons for net job loss apply in the US, also. The political and evironmental classes are lying about what will happen.
The grass is always greenerApr 2nd 2009 From The Economist print edition Saving the planet and creating jobs may be incompatible.
Since there is no national unity among the political executives of the states regarding the implementation of the national stimuli, then the question arises : should rating the success of the Federal stimuli programs be done on a sort of "pro-rata" basis?" If the Federal effort t …
Jane Alexander: Jindal's wrong on arts funding - CNN.comFor actress Jane Alexander, the criticism of a $50 million boost in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts is a sequel.
Would it were not so, but I can not write any better a critique of Keynesian economic thinking as misunderstood by the Obamunists than this adaptation from a speech delivered Jan. 9, 2009, in Washington D.C. at a seminar sponsored by Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr.
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