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Demanding bold solutions to today’s jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America’s Future » The general reaction to last week’s jobs report was positive toward the 222,000 private sector jobs that were created and dismissive of the fact that nearly 14 percent of those job gains were negated by […]
The Huffington Post’s senior Washington correspondent Dan Froomkin today solves a mystery. Last year he launched a series, “America Needs Jobs,” and promised 20 ideas that should be on the policy table for discussion. The ideas made for compelling reading, even though some progressives might take issue with a few of the approaches. But after […]
Demanding bold solutions to today’s jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America’s Future » At a time when the nation faces a lost decade of chronically high unemployment, you would think any serious proposal for putting people back to work would be discussed and dissected, with the best ideas […]
Demanding bold solutions to today’s jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America’s Future » This morning’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is somewhat encouraging news for job seekers, but it does not change what we’ve been saying about the economy for the past year: To the […]
Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics today confirms what several other experts are saying about the slash-and-burn budget antics of House conservatives: The budget cuts being pushed by House Speaker John Boehner and the Tea Party-possessed House of Representatives will not put people back to work, They will put people out of work. Zandi’s report says: […]
LISTEN Deborah Weinstein of the Coalition for Human Needs explains how irresponsible federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives in Congress will ultimately make the economy worse. The federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives on Capitol Hill are not just heartless and reckless; they will if enacted "close off the route to jobs" and […]
To break the inside-the-Beltway consensus that a robust, government-led effort to lower the unemployment rate this year should not be on the table for legislative debate, the Campaign for America’s Future this week announced that it is convening a “Summit on Jobs and America’s Future” on March 10 in Washington. This summit is based on […]
In the much-buzzed-about Sunday New York Times Magazine article by Peter Baker on President Obama’s search for an “exciting” jobs plan that could be offered in his State of the Union address next week, a White House adviser describes Obama as “really frustrated that there weren’t solutions on the cheap” for addressing today’s jobs crisis. […]
There isn’t much cause for gloating in today’s unemployment report, with the number of jobs created during December—103,000—being lower than most analysts expected. But, more critically, we’re not even treading water on creating a sufficient number of “breadwinning jobs” needed to grow and sustain America’s middle class. Conservatives shouldn’t be quick to pounce on this […]
They came, they saw, they took it all. Welcome to the world where thieves have no honor and those most honored — with lavish rewards — hone their talents hammering the rest of us. Hard times can be good times — for the aggressively avaricious. Where others see pain, they see opportunity. In desperation, they […]