Obama Jobs Summit: President Holding December 'Forum On Jobs'
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he'll host a White House summit next month on fighting the chronic joblessness that ...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he'll host a White House summit next month on fighting the chronic joblessness that ...
usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
You know about the bailouts, the stimulus plan, cash for clunkers, and moola for mansions. But for all the anxiety they've caused, those government gi...
Washington Post | Alec MacGillis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
To hear President Obama tell it, he's been busy creating jobs since taking office. The $787 billion stimulus package, he said last winter, would "save...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Nowhere is the massive disconnect between Washington D.C. and the rest of the country more striking than when it comes to the issue of jobs. Inside ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
The loss of 467,000 jobs in June, driving the national unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, is unwelcome news for the Obama administration, which has spe...
AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama assured the nation his recovery plan was on track Monday, scrambling to calm Americans unnerved by unemploym...
Donnie Fowler | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green
Green jobs can reduce unemployment and poverty, increase job long-term security, provide new sources of income and investment for our economy and combat climate change.
AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama doesn't have time for a victory lap now that his Cabinet is finally largely in place. One level down, he fa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration hosted an event at the Department of Transportation on Tuesday to mark the first case of stimulus money creating infrastructu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
Much of the focus of the just completed Obama press conference is going to center on his answer to the obligatory Rod Blagojevich question -- the pres...
New York Times | CHRISTOPHER DREW | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
Two of President-elect Barack Obama's stated goals -- cutting wasteful spending and saving or creating millions of jobs -- are on a collision course i...
Bob Dinneen | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green
One of President-elect Obama's key objectives early in his administration is to create 2.5 million jobs through investment in green technologies.
LA Times | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
Reporting from Washington -- One member of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team measures meetings by the number of resumes arriving on his B...
NBC | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
An Obama transition official tells NBC News that they've received more than 200,000 work applications through the official transition web site, www.ch...
236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics
Sure, we're in an economic crisis, but that doesn't mean nobody's hiring. President-elect Obama is looking for a few good men, and by "good," we mean ...
Art Brodsky | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media
The first qualification for the new FCC chairman should be a firm dedication to Goal No. 1 -- The public interest, not private interest, should govern.
New York Times | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics
Want a top job in the Obama administration? Only pack rats need apply, preferably those not packing controversy. A seven-page questionnaire being se...
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
The thousands of people appointed throughout the Executive Branch set policies in everything -- you can be part of that.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
The AFL-CIO is blasting out a new mailer to its members, trumpeting Barack Obama's credentials on a key issue of the day -- job creation -- and a pote...
TPM | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
The primary may not be over yet (officially), but the Obama campaign is seeking to staff up for the general election. Here's an email, forwarded our w...
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics