Think Broader on Jobs Tax Credit
Though the recent plunge in national unemployment statistics was heartening, big problems remain in some parts of the country. Nowhere is that more true than Los Angeles.
Though the recent plunge in national unemployment statistics was heartening, big problems remain in some parts of the country. Nowhere is that more true than Los Angeles.
Robert Reich | Posted 12.09.2009 | Business
There is no reason to tolerate this degree of misery. We know exactly what to do. The government has the fiscal tools to do it. Start by bailing out state and local governments and spending on infrastructure.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
Here's the key takeaway from President Obama's jobs talk on Monday: It's too little, too late. Obama proposed an unspecified amount of new spending o...
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the w...
NY Daily News | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics
The conspiracy theorists will hate this one: the White House was so caught off guard by the improving employment data released today that President Ob...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama on Thursday disputed the notion that he is overly concerned about the budget deficit -- and as a result, is under-reacting to t...
The Orange County Register | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics
Joni O'Neill was in her Mission Viejo flower shop late one night, watching the news, when she saw a story critical of President Barack Obama. She s...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics
Even as he trumpeted a slowdown in the nation's job losses Friday, President Barack Obama put finishing touches on a proposal he'll unveil next week t...
The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
A funny thing happened on the way to a new New Deal. A year ago, the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; today, the reigning doctrine in Washin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
One of the loudest populist voices in the Democratic Caucus predicted on Thursday that the party may have to forcefully challenge the White House on e...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Wash...
The New York Times | Steven Greenhouse | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
With unemployment among blacks at more than 15 percent, the N.A.A.C.P. will join several other groups on Tuesday to call on President Obama to do more...
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
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 12.02.2009 | 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...
Eric Garcetti | Posted 12.10.2009 | Los Angeles