NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners aren't excited about a new law that will allow them to raise money by soliciting investors on the Internet, ac...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 04.09.2012
Given the Republican strategy of take-no-prisoners, the only bipartisanship is capitulation. It's hard to tack back and forth between leadership and appeasement without looking like a captain who's not sure where he's taking the ship. More leadership, please.
Connie Evans | Posted 04.06.2012
Yesterday, I attended President Obama's signing of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act at the White House. The JOBS Act, which passed in Co...
Frank A. Weil | Posted 04.05.2012
How many of those who voted for it knew what was in it? And how many of those who read it connected its provisions to the lessons of the last decade? The answer must be very few.
Brendan Smith | Posted 04.03.2012
If we fail to become the voice for both the planet and workers, our movement risks losing the support of increasing numbers of workers, unions and their political allies.
Rev. Chuck Currie | Posted 04.02.2012
Romney told CNN this morning that "I'm not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there." He'll probably want to bet $10,000 to prove me wrong, but we aren't doing enough to fight poverty.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.24.2012
The jobs crisis is an oft-discussed topic on the campaign trail, and it is likely to come up tonight in President Obama's State of the Union address, ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- About a dozen Occupy protesters who drove through the night from Connecticut and spent hours camped out in front of Sen. Joe Lieberman's...
Posted 11.29.2011
Yesterday, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis was joined in Denver by Gov. John Hickenlooper, congresswoman Diana DeGette and others for a roundtable di...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.22.2011
WASHINGTON -- The so-called super committee announced Monday that it failed to deliver on its task: producing a plan that shaves trillions of dollars ...
Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 01.18.2012
Compromise was on the wane in our nation's Capitol before the elections of 2010. It has become virtually non-existent since.
Patrick Murphy | Posted 01.10.2012
As a country, we have a sacred trust with our men and women in uniform that begins with enlistment, but never ends. This Veterans Day let's say thank you to our troops in a real way by offering them the opportunities that our grandparents enjoyed following World War II.
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 01.07.2012
WASHINGTON — Embracing veterans, President Barack Obama on Monday urged Republicans in Congress to "put country before party" and support new wa...
Edward Flattau | Posted 01.05.2012
Republicans maintain that the states and private companies could more effectively rehabilitate infrastructure than could Obama's proposed Federal Infrastructure Bank. But the GOP argument is a red herring.
AP | By ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 01.05.2012
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden says the White House will keep acting on its own to find ways to help the economy if congressional Republicans ...
Herb Engert | Posted 01.03.2012
Entrepreneurs are the nation's economic heroes -- dedicated people who are a critical factor in the resilience of the U.S. economy. Even in an environment of doubt, they are prepared to take the risk of investing to grow their companies -- and that growth equals more jobs.
Posted 01.02.2012
Patch.com reports: President Obama will give a speech about his American Jobs Act Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. in Georgetown in front of the Key Bridge....
HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 01.01.2012
What explains the silence from most of the business world on the need to get serious about creating millions of jobs? In what passes for the natio...
Matthew Lynch, Ed.D. | Posted 01.01.2012
Having compromised for most of his first term, Obama seems to have cleared the way to play hardball. He is promising some movement, one way or another.
Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 01.01.2012
It's now been more than 300 days since the Republicans have taken over the U.S. House of Representatives yet they still haven't put forward a jobs plan.
Tarot Politico | Posted 12.28.2011
In this Tarot card reading about the global economy, I drew the Death card. Does that give you a Halloween fright? I thought it might. But, it s...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.27.2011
What does one do when one learns that one is -- how shall I put this? Universally hated? Despised beyond measure by everyone? Well, if you are the U.S. Congress -- currently holding strong at a 9 percent approval rating in a world where I'm guessing that at least five percent of the public would allow themselves to have a pig's bladder full of live wasps thrown at their face at least once, just to try it -- you could decide that you are going to start doing the opposite of whatever it is you're doing now. But why make an effort when you can just make a bunch of glum jokes about it instead, as Lindsey Graham has decided to do?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.27.2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Still searching for mechanisms to pass pieces of the president's jobs bill, senior administration officials returned on Thursday t...
Posted 12.26.2011
In hopes of securing his re-election bid, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has cast himself as the bipartisan candidate. Touting his ability to handle p...
Posted 12.25.2011
The White House said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama will take executive action to help military veterans find work, bypassing congressiona...
AP | Posted 05.22.2012