View By Tag : infrastructure
Taking on the banking cabal
(therealnews.com)
Investment in infrastructure not enough; Obama must take on the banks
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Connecting the Bridge to Nowhere to the New Reality (amforumbacklog.blogspot.com)
Taxpayers around the globe have paid over $13 trillion (more than a quarter of the gross global product) to bail out financial, insurance and other organizations as well as investors. Was this global... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by AmericanForum | 0 Comments |
Investing in Our Human Infrastructure (amforumbacklog.blogspot.com)
Over half a million people lost their jobs last month. There’s no question we need a job-creation plan. The real question is what kind of plan will most quickly stimulate the economy and at the same... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by AmericanForum | 0 Comments |
CAN INFRASTRUCTURE SURVIVE STIMULUS?
(www.prospect.org)
On the question of the tax cuts embedded in the stimulus measure, Jon Cohn spoke to a senior economist on Obama's team, who said:
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
WI Coalition: Repair Spells (Economic) Relief
(www.publicnewsservice.org)
A Wisconsin group is calling on the federal government to quickly put into effect a New Deal-style jobs program to turn the state's ailing economy around. Citizen Action of Wisconsin also wants... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
The Obama Economic Stimulus -- Will it Take Us Where We Need to Go?
(www.yesmagazine.org)
Dear President-elect Obama, The economic stimulus package you laid out today in your weekly radio and internet address is a great starting point -- very much needed as the downward spiral of the... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Biden Hearts Rail
(www.prospect.org)
It's a bit unsettling to face up to, but the creation of national policy often follows a scarily delicate path. For instance, John F. Kennedy's interest in poverty, which laid the groundwork for the... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
Obama launches Change.gov, redirects fund-raising to hurricane victims (www.thoughtgadgets.com)
And over at his main site BarackObama.com, Obama flipped on a splash page today to request donations for victims of Hurricane Gustav -- which socked the Louisiana and Texas coast back on Aug. 25.... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by backhandpath | 1 Comments |
The Opportunity of Infrastructure
(www.prospect.org)
James Surowiecki laments the fact that "new government spending is almost always seen as problematic while tax breaks--even selective ones that are really tantamount to government spending--are... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |

RSS
