Jobs Bill

What Friday's Job Numbers Mean

Robert Reich | Posted 04.07.2012

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President Obama will claim the economy is improving -- and, technically, it is. Growth this year will most likely average around 2 percent. The problem is, most Americans aren't feeling it in their paychecks.

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It's Tax Time: Is It Also a Time to Occupy the IRS?

Danny Schechter | Posted 04.05.2012

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Today, especially thanks to Occupy Wall Street, we know how economic inequality had grown while the people with the most money in society work the hardest to not pay their fair share. They have been resisting for years, "legally," they claim.

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The 'JOBS Act' Is a Fraud on America

Frank A. Weil | Posted 04.05.2012

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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.

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Small Business Bill Heads To Obama

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.27.2012

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WASHINGTON — Despite warnings that less government oversight might mean more investment scams, Congress on Tuesday sent President Barack Obama l...

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Designing a Blueprint for Accountability

Eliot Spitzer | Posted 05.27.2012

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Simply passing a bill designed by the Chamber of Commerce and the banks is a cheap move to appease donors and those whose economic theories have been proven wrong at every turn over the past several decades. But that is, unfortunately, what we have come to expect.

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Fiscal Affairs: Last Ditch Attempt to Save a Little Bit of Investor Protection in the U.S.

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.22.2012

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Much of the 1930s-era Securities legislation, which served us well for more than 70 years, is about to be repealed in a moment of bipartisan madness.

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Fiscal Affairs: "JOBS" Disaster Looms

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.21.2012

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The Senate will vote today on whether to adopt the main provisions of the House bill. Passing this bill would be a major public policy mistake -- akin to the disastrous (and bipartisan) deregulation of the financial sector in the 1990s.

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Which Lobby Wrote the "JOBS" ("Jivers' Opportunity to Bilk Suckers") Act? Solving a "Bipartisan" Mystery

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.20.2012

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It's hard to figure out who's behind the bill when many wealthy and powerful interests stand to benefit from it.

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Why Credit Unions Matter

Gary Oakland | Posted 05.20.2012

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Credit unions serve more than 90 million Americans and play a key role in supporting our economic recovery. Unfortunately, current law imposes requirements which unfairly penalize healthy credit unions for growing to meet the needs of their members.

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The Wisdom of the Crowd

Tim Rowe | Posted 05.20.2012

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It's time to return to a world in which we can help each other get to work. The JOBS Bill will substantially increase business and job growth in ways we can only begin to imagine.

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Fiscal Affairs: CFA Institute Against the "JOBS" Bill

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.20.2012

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Overwhelmingly, members of the CFA Institute are against the "JOBs" bill as it currently stands. According to a survey released yesterday, and available through MarketWatch, 33 percent of CFA members in the U.S. think that the Senate should "not pass this bill."

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Fiscal Affairs: A Colossal Mistake of Historic Proportions: The "JOBS" Bill

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.19.2012

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With the so-called JOBS bill, Congress is about to abandon much of the 1930s-era securities legislation that both served investors well and helped make the U.S. one of the best places in the world to raise capital. We find ourselves again on a bipartisan route to disaster.

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New Jobs Bill Great Except For The Financial Fraud Thing

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.15.2012

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Congress might soon pass a bill aimed at creating jobs. But there's a catch. Regulators say the bill -- known as the Jumpstart Our Business Startup...

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Why Congress's Latest Jobs Effort Falls Flat

ProPublica | Posted 03.14.2012

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Finally, the House passed a jobs bill last week. And what a bill it is! ...

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An Economic Recovery That Doesn't Leave Hispanics Behind

Kristian Ramos | Posted 05.12.2012

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Republican Party's embrace of austerity over investment underscores the GOP's current unwillingness to invest in Hispanics and other low income communities hit hardest by this past recession.

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Labor Leaders And Economists Unimpressed With Jobs Proposals In Obama's State Of The Union

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.25.2012

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President Obama's emphasis on creating manufacturing jobs in his State of the Union address on Tuesday sounded just right to union leaders. But ev...

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Shortening the War Would Pay for Half of the Payroll Tax Holiday

Robert Naiman | Posted 01.29.2012

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We're now spending well over $100 billion a year on the war. If we removed all "regular U.S. combat troops by the end of 2012, that could easily save well over $100 billion.

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Shared Responsibility for Job Creation

Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 01.22.2012

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If Congress is going to remain at a gridlock, all Americans must come together to help change the economic climate in this country before all hope is lost.

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Don't Start Talking About The Deficit Again

Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.08.2012

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How well the economy is doing on November 6, 2012, will likely be the single most important factor in how America votes. And even though Republicans ...

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"Do-Nothing Republican Congress" Could Sink GOP In 2012

Robert Creamer | Posted 01.07.2012

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Even assuming that the economy continues to experience only modest improvements over the next year, the Obama campaign can lay the lack of progress where it belongs -- at the feet of the "do-nothing Republican Congress."

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Jobs Message War Hits Fever Pitch As Obama Makes Case For Infrastructure Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The high political stakes of winning the debate on jobs was on prominent display Wednesday -- and will be again Thursday -- as both part...

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Golden Calf Conservatives

Cliff Schecter | Posted 12.31.2011

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Whether it's the bronze bull encountered by those occupying Wall Street, the fixation with a Chris Christie presidency not to be, or the ex post facto...

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The GOP's Ongoing Lack of Respect

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 12.28.2011

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All American presidents deserve respect, and all American voters deserve candidates who will confront bigotry, and not sit in convenient silence when it rears its ugly head.

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Obama Jobs Bill Ignores Basic Principle of Job Creation: Small Businesses Create All the Jobs

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 12.27.2011

The federal government is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world. Small businesses need those contracts, not the tax cuts proposed in the president's jobs bill.

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Joe Biden Defends Controversial Rape Comments

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 12.23.2011

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Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday offered a defense of his provocative claim that if Republicans didn't support the president's jobs bill, rapes and ...

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