Finally, the House passed a jobs bill last week. And what a bill it is! ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.25.2012
Philanthropist Gene Epstein says he donated $250,000 to assorted charities on behalf of businesses that hired unemployed people starting in 2009. Now ...
AP | STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 01.21.2012
MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Barack Obama will visit a changed New Hampshire on Tuesday. The independent-minded presidential swing state he won...
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.
Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.10.2011
When he was in the process of running for Lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom caught a lot of flack for saying he didn't know what the Lieutenant Govern...
Reuters | Laura MacInnis | Posted 12.04.2011
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama challenged Republican leaders on Tuesday to put his entire $447 billion jobs plan to a vote, rather than ...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 11.29.2011
The Federal Reserve is trying to do their part with more easing of interest rates, but absent more action on the fiscal side, like the measures in the president's jobs plan, I don't expect anyone much to take advantage of lower rates.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.16.2011
Obama should run a few ads right now which do not even mention the election. Instead of saying "vote for me!" these ads should say "pass my jobs bill" in as many creative ways as possible.
Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 11.16.2011
With President Obama's jobs speech on Monday and Speaker Boehner's jobs speech yesterday, we can put the Democratic and Republican Party economic plans side by side. What is stunning is that neither side offers a serious diagnosis or a solution.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.15.2011
WASHINGTON -- Hours after it was reported that Democrats were abandoning a jobs bill before it was introduced, party leadership insisted that Democrat...
William Lazonick | Posted 11.15.2011
The dearth of jobs, even in an economic recovery, reflects the cumulative impact of three structural changes in the employment practices of U.S. industrial corporations.
Jeff Selingo | Posted 11.14.2011
In the short term, colleges could create programs to help close the "skills gap" that right now keeps some three million jobs from being filled, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.09.2011
President Barack Obama opened his re-election campaign last night with a wowzer of a speech to a joint session of Congress.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 11.09.2011
I don't think President Obama is trying to create jobs. His jobs bill is designed to get him re-elected. I think if you looked at the facts you'd agree.
New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 11.09.2011
First things first: I was favorably surprised by the new Obama jobs plan, which is significantly bolder and better than I expected. It’s not nearly ...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 11.07.2011
The first problem is that $300 billion is much too small to stimulate an economy the size of the United States. The federal government bailed out AIG, one company, for approximately $150 billion.
The Post and Courier | By Renee Dudley | Posted 11.06.2011
Gov. Nikki Haley's weeklong trip to Europe in June in search of "jobs, jobs, jobs" cost South Carolinians more than $127,000. But the governor and her...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2011
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) criticized President Barack Obama for his upcoming jobs speech, saying "there is no reason for him to call a joint session of ...
Robert Reich | Posted 11.01.2011
The winner of the 2012 presidential election will be the person who comes off as the toughest fighter for average Americans. Earth to Obama: Remember Harry (Give 'em Hell) Truman.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 10.31.2011
WASHINGTON – As recently as June, an environmental website declared former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman the "greenest" of the Republican presidential cand...
AP | STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 10.31.2011
HUDSON, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called Wednesday for sweeping tax changes and new trade agreements to help revital...
The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 10.30.2011
Sixty-seven major progressive organizations have penned an open letter to President Barack Obama, asking him to "go big" as he prepares a new jobs pla...
Washington Post | Eugene Robinson | Posted 10.30.2011
President Obama’s promised jobs plan needs to be unrealistic and unreasonable, at the very least. If he can crank it all the way up to unimaginable,...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.24.2011
It is time for anti-small business elements in Washington to be run out of town, and time for President Obama and Congress to develop a real jobs program based on the Small Business Act and the SBA.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.19.2011
President Obama is on vacation. This fact is being subject to ridicule from Republicans, and their enablers in the media. Which has prompted me to -- in the fashion of Bill Maher -- come up with a New Rule.
ProPublica | Posted 03.14.2012