JOBS BILL

POLITICS
What I Hate...
By Gerry Myers, Contributor
CEO, president and co-founder of Advisory Link
I hate that we are leaving such a mess to our children and grandchildren. Solution: Congress should stop acting like children and do their jobs.
POLITICS
2014 Warning to Dems
By Brent Budowsky, Contributor
Columnist
To mobilize the Democratic base, the president and Democrats in Congress are going to have to do things much differently -- fight much harder, battle much more visibly and act much more boldly than they have in recent years.
POLITICS
Time Out!
By Atiba Madyun, Contributor
President, The Madyun Group (TMG)
Politics has become a childish blame game. Right now led by Republicans pointing fingers at everyone but yourselves, in the U.S. Congress. So We The People want you to go to the Time Out corner.
BUSINESS
Invest in Things You Understand
By Ryan Caldbeck, Contributor
CEO, CircleUp
Complex financial schemes and investment theses lend themselves to inefficiency and un-internalized risks. That's why investors may want to take a look at consumer products. As consumers themselves, they "speak the same language."
POLITICS
Elizabeth Warren Is the Democrats' Pride, Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock Are the Republicans' Shame
By Brent Budowsky, Contributor
Columnist
Elizabeth Warren is one of the most exciting and uplifting Democratic candidates in many years. Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock will leave a different legacy in this election: They dramatize the Republican problem with women, and the Republican problem with rape.
POLITICS
Obama Could've Closed the Deal Last Night... But Didn't
By Trey Ellis, Contributor
Novelist, Screenwriter, and Associate Professor at Columbia Un...
Last night the president still left unsaid what he plans to do in his second term. Romney, on the other hand, trumpets a clear message of hope and of change.
IMPACT
WATCH: How Washington Screwed A Generation Of Vets
By Samreen Hooda
SMALL BUSINESS
Jobs Are an American Issue, Not a Republican or Democratic Issue
By Kay Koplovitz, Contributor
Founder, USA Network; Chairman and CEO, Koplovitz & Co
I am also a product of the middle class whose only real path to success was through my education, my imagination and my ability to execute. Honestly, these values I believe are basic human values and basic American values. That's why I believe in a strong middle class.
POLITICS
Thank You, Republicans!
By Andy Ostroy, Contributor
Political and Pop Culture Analyst
Thank you for being unyieldingly stubborn, monumentally petty, manically obsessive, irrationally dogmatic, divisively partisan and, most of all, woefully transparent. See you in November.
POLITICS
What Friday's Job Numbers Mean
By Robert Reich, Contributor
Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of Califor...
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.
BUSINESS
It's Tax Time: Is It Also a Time to Occupy the IRS?
By Danny Schechter, Contributor
Founder and executive editor, MediaChannel
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.
POLITICS
The 'JOBS Act' Is a Fraud on America
By Frank A. Weil, Contributor
Chairman, Abacus & Associates, Inc.
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.
POLITICS
Designing a Blueprint for Accountability
By Eliot Spitzer, Contributor
Slate columnist; Fmr. Governor of New York
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.
BUSINESS
Fiscal Affairs: Last Ditch Attempt to Save a Little Bit of Investor Protection in the U.S.
By Simon Johnson, Contributor
Author, 'White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our Nation...
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.
BUSINESS
Fiscal Affairs: "JOBS" Disaster Looms
By Simon Johnson, Contributor
Author, 'White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our Nation...
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.
POLITICS
Which Lobby Wrote the "JOBS" ("Jivers' Opportunity to Bilk Suckers") Act? Solving a "Bipartisan" Mystery
By Richard (RJ) Eskow, Contributor
Host, The Zero Hour; Sr. Fellow, Campaign for America's Future
It's hard to figure out who's behind the bill when many wealthy and powerful interests stand to benefit from it.
BUSINESS
Why Credit Unions Matter
By Gary Oakland, Contributor
President & CEO, BECU
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.
BUSINESS
The Wisdom of the Crowd
By Tim Rowe, Contributor
Founder and CEO, Cambridge Innovation Center
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.
BUSINESS
Fiscal Affairs: CFA Institute Against the "JOBS" Bill
By Simon Johnson, Contributor
Author, 'White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our Nation...
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."
BUSINESS
Fiscal Affairs: A Colossal Mistake of Historic Proportions: The "JOBS" Bill
By Simon Johnson, Contributor
Author, 'White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our Nation...
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.
BUSINESS
New Jobs Bill Great Except For The Financial Fraud Thing
By Alexander Eichler
POLITICS
Why Congress's Latest Jobs Effort Falls Flat
LATINO VOICES
An Economic Recovery That Doesn't Leave Hispanics Behind
By Kristian Ramos, Contributor
Media Matters For America
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.
BUSINESS
Labor Leaders And Economists Unimpressed With Jobs Proposals In Obama's State Of The Union
By Bonnie Kavoussi
POLITICS
Shortening the War Would Pay for Half of the Payroll Tax Holiday
By Robert Naiman, Contributor
Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy
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.
POLITICS
Shared Responsibility for Job Creation
By Rep. Charles Rangel, Contributor
Representative from the 13th Congressional District in New York
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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