Job Growth

Creating Conditions for Small Businesses to Thrive

Stacey Lawson | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Politics, Video, Congress, Economy, Manufacturing Job, Small Business America, Small Business, Health Care Reform, Job Growth, Small Business News and Trends, Health Care, Small Business News

By investing in our small businesses, we invest in job growth. One of the best ways to help small businesses lift more Americans into the middle class is to remove the economic barriers that are holding small businesses back.

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A Good Sign?

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Household Income, Unemployment, Consumer Sentiment May, Reuters, Consumer Sentiment, Consumer Wages, Economic Recovery, Job Growth, Video, Money News

NEW YORK, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment rose to its highest level in more than four years in May as Americans stayed optimistic about t...

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Renew America: It's the Econometrics, Stupid!

Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Unemployment, Income Inequality, Economic Crisis, Jobs, Recession, US Economy, US Financial Crisis, US Economic Crisis, Job Growth, Job Creation, Depression, Business News

We need to realize that it's the econometrics, stupid. If we do not, we will continue to develop, promote and implement policies, plans and programs that are mediocre at best and counter-productive at best.

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Ryan Budget Punishes the Poorest -- A Return to 'Les Miserables'?

Harlan Green | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Les Miserables, Paul Ryan, Victor Hugo, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Ryan Plan, Paul Ryan Plan, Job Growth, FIB Small Business Confidence Survey, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

We know Victor Hugo's message is alive and well when Paul Ryan's latest budget proposal continues to punish the poorest for the sins of the wealthiest, who caused the Great Recession and have yet to be punished.

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Detroit Shows Big Job Growth In One Sector

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Detroit Job Growth, Video, Michigan Manufacturing Jobs, Michigan Jobs, Detroit Economy, Detroit Manufacturing Jobs, Manufacturing, Job Growth, Brookings Report, Brookings Institution, Detroit Jobs, Michigan Economy, Manufacturing Jobs, Detroit News

Reversing the trend of the previous decade, Detroit has added more manufacturing jobs in the last two years than all but one other metropolitan area i...

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Governor Romney's Job Growth Record -- Worse than Obama and Carter's

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Job Growth, President Obama, Bain, President Carter, New Jobs, Mitt Romney 2012, Obama Unemployment, Jimmy Carter Romney, Romney Unemployment, Jimmy Carter Job Growth, Obama Job Growth, Romney Job Growth, Politics News

Mitt Romney is now comparing himself to President Jimmy Carter. But his job growth during his tenure as governor is less than 25 percent of President Carter's record. Still want to compare your jobs record to President Carter, Mitt?

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Selective Amnesia and the Rogue Elephant

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Gop, Unemployment, Cheney, Job Growth, 9/11, Private Sector Job Growth, Obama, Djia, Domestic Terrorism, Dow, Bush, Recovery, Obama Economy, GOP Anti-Obama Talk, Politics News

Surely, since according to the far right Obama was to blame for the declining economy prior to taking office, he must also then be credited with the growing economy. No amount of twisted logic and ideological contortion can get around that conundrum.

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Basic Scientific Research and Its Transformational Potential

James M. Gentile | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Basic Scientific Research, Randy Hultgren, Solar Energy Conversion, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Harry Truman, Job Growth, Frederick Gardner Cottrell, Smithsonian, Robert Goddard, Franklin Roosevelt, High-Risk High-Reward, Applied Science, Fox Chicago Sunday, National Science Foundation, Nobel Prize, National Air and Space Museum, Foundation, Fermilab, Basic Science, Early Career Scientists, Ipad, Ernest O. Lawrence, Green Technology, Google, Sun-Orbital S, Science News

As our nation's leadership in scientific and technological innovation is challenged as never before, federal funding of basic scientific research remains essential, but that research should be potentially transformational.

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What the Federal Government Can Learn From Florida

Job Creators Alliance | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Jobs, Rick Scott, Florida, Business, Job Creation, Job Growth, Unemployment Rate, Employment, Politics News

The parties must come together to create a positive business environment, with established and common sense rules, a reduction in bureaucratic induced burdens, and the removal of uncertainty and ambiguity that comes from arbitrary and radical policies.

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Mild Winter Weather Might Have Made The Economy Look Better Than It Is

The Washington Post | YLAN Q. MUI | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: March Jobs Report, March 2012 Jobs Report, U.S. Economy, Jobs Report March 2012, Labor Force, Unemployment, Monthly Jobs Report, Hiring, Jobs Report, Job Growth, Winter, Weather, Job Creation, Winter Weather, Video, Business News

As most Americans basked in the warmest, sunniest March in half a century, economists stared at the skies with dread: Could good weather portend ba...

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20 Metros Recovering Worst From The Recession

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Government, Housing Market, Gdp, Government Layoffs, Public Sector Layoffs, Manufacturing, Economic Recovery, Job Growth, Technology, Challenger Gray & Christmas, Brookings Institution, Cities, Business News

In the elusive quest for a sustainable economic recovery, some areas have fared better than others. Only 19 of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan a...

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Manufacturing Pain Far From Over

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Video, Shifting Overseas, Reuters, Job Growth, Globalization Manufacturing, Offshore, Service Sector Jobs, Jobs Exodus, Manufacturing Jobs, American Workers, US Jobs, Business News

* Investment in foreign plants rising, domestic falling * Manufacturing job recovery minimal * Fewer service jobs remain...

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Re-visiting The 'She-covery'

The New York Times | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Job Growth, Male Employment, Statistical Fluctuations, Unemployment, Female Employment, Recession, Employment, Women News

Mike Konczal has a good post at the New Deal 2.0 blog, pointing out that much of the recent rise in female employment - the subject of my post on Frid...

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3 Ways to Save America's Black Boys, Pt. 1 of 3

Mike Green | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Economic, Black America, Saving America's Black Boys, Job Growth, Black Boys, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Innovation Economy, Venture Capital, Failing Schools, STEM Education, Entrepreneurship, Urban, Education, Black Voices News

Whenever someone thinks they have few bullet points of supreme wisdom that can save the world, sane people instantly roll their eyes. The insanely cur...

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The Only Man in America that Obama Has Not Fooled Speaks Out

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Small Business, Economy, Small Business Administration, Barack, Job Growth, Sba, Jobs, Economic Growth, Obama, Lloyd Chapman, Business, American Small Business League, Stimulus, President, Politics News

If you stop listening to Obama read his speeches and start watching what he does, you realize he's anti-small business all the way.

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Politifact Backtracks After State Of The Union Fact Check Wreck

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.26.2012

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In the continuing annals of Politifact oddness, it seems that during the initial truth-squadding of last night's State Of The Union address, the fact-...

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Academia's Emerging Role In Entrepreneurship Policymaking

Robert Strom | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Small Business, Economy, Job Growth, Entrepreneurs, Education, White House, Startup, College, Startups, Academia, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Universities, Mba, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Small Business News

While the mounting interest in entrepreneurship in the government and at our universities is encouraging, it is hardly enough to create the kind of broad understanding and policy support that we need to foster new business creation in a meaningful way.

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End Of Year Job Growth Boosting Hopes For Spending Next Year

AP | By MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Consumer Spending 2011, Jobs Crisis, Video, Consumer Spending 2012, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Job Growth, Economic Recovery, Consumer Spending, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Consumer spending and incomes barely rose last month. Business investment has slowed. New-home sales remain dismal. Despite all that, s...

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Angel Investing in Startups Stimulates Job Growth

Mike Green | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Black Innovation, Andres Montgomery, Ari Winkleman, Angel Investors, Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Jobs, Rutgers, Entrepreneurs, Job Growth, Venture Capital, Gathering-of-Angels, Entrepreneurship, Investors, Business News

The next Mark Zuckerberg will likely emerge from environments that foster, nurture and invest in the innovative spirit of its talented entrepreneurs.

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Space Exploration Reaches New Milestones - for Technology and Jobs

James M. Gentile | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Nasa, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, LSST Corporation, Innovation, Scientific Innovation, Space Exploration, U.S. Department of Energy, Apollo Space Program, Technology, Science, Job Growth, Mars, Funding for Scientific Research, Silicon Valley, Lsst, Technology News

Where would America be today without Silicon Valley? And where would Silicon Valley -- and all of the jobs that have flowed from it -- be without U.S. space exploration?

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Private Sector Job Growth Picked Up In November

Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Video, Jobs Crisis, Unemployment, ADP National Employment Report, Stocks, John Thomas Financial, Private Sector, Employment, Payrolls, Jobs, Job Growth, Job Creation, Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, Business News

The pace of job growth in the economy's private sector accelerated in November, with U.S. employers adding 206,000 jobs, a report by a payrolls pr...

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The Best And Worst Ways Government Can Help Create Jobs

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.20.2011

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Unemployment might be stuck at crisis levels, but a new government report suggests two commonly proposed Republican remedies would only have minimal e...

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Deregulation Won't Lead To Job Growth: Congressional Budget Office

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Repatriation, Unemployment, Republicans Job Creation, Bruce Bartlett, Deregulation, Republican Jobs, Regulation, Job Growth, Congressional Budget Office, Obama Job Creation, Job Creation, Obama Jobs Plan, Republicans, Payroll Tax, Veterans, Business News

The country needs jobs, but cutting back on government regulations may not the best way to get them. Deregulation -- a favorite talking point of c...

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'Bail Out of America' or 'Bail Out America'?

Paul Heroux | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Politics, Jobs, Job Growth, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Government Jobs, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Great Recession, Economic Crisis, Main Street, President Bush, Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Business News

Republicans have been chanting that public investment "crowds out" private investment. They are missing a major lesson of Macroeconomics 101: public investment doesn't crowd out private investment in the short run; it does so in the long run.

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World Bank: U.S. Regulations More Business Friendly Than Most

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: U.S. Job Growth, Video, Regulations, Economy, World Bank, Business-Regulations, Business News, Job Growth, Small Business Regulations, World Bank u.s. Regulations, Business News

As U.S. politicians wrangle over the best way to create jobs and spur economic growth, one international agency is indicating that changing the regula...

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