Fifty years ago, Etta James recorded a song that became her signature, "At Last." And last week, President Obama outlined the American Jobs Act, which appears to be a realistic government response to the persistent 9%+ unemployment rate. At last.
Whether it results in the passage of the American Jobs Act remains to be seen. But it did what it was supposed to do: it put Republicans on defense for the first time in months.
Could Obama's job plan finally restore the confidence of the middle-class family, the single mom, the unemployed professional, or the Latino worker?
After Buzzfeed whittled down the Republican presidential debate to a mere 45 seconds, they did one better: Just 35 seconds to cut to the heart of Obam...
WASHINGTON - Congressional lawmakers were quick to offer boilerplate responses to President Barack Obama's jobs speech on Thursday night, but none wer...
CHICAGO -- America's two largest teachers unions, which have often clashed with the Obama administration on education policies, praised the president ...
WASHINGTON -- In his jobs speech before Congress Thursday night, President Barack Obama appeared to call on congressional Democrats to cut Medicare, a...
The simple truth is that, beyond war industry hype, military spending costs us jobs.
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that his Republican colleagues "ought to be respectful" and attend President Barack Ob...
President Barack Obama will address both chambers of Congress Thursday to unveil his plan to create jobs, but not everyone plans to attend. Despite...
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 nation is waiting to hear what President Obama is going to say tomorrow night, when he gives an address to a joint session of Congress on the subj...
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Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk defended President Obama's jobs speech scheduled for Thursday in light of 8th District Rep. Joe Walsh's announcement th...
WASHINGTON -- In the wake of Friday's dismal employment report, which reported no net change in the number of U.S. jobs, Top officials in the Democrat...
Despite what the writers of the world want to believe, an out-of-the-blue come-to-Jesus speech from President Obama would fail just as disastrously as Carter's now infamous "crisis-of-confidence speech."
