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Weekly Audit: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs (open.salon.com) TMC

President Barack Obama invited leading economic thinkers to a job creation summit on Thursday to help combat the worst unemployment crisis in decades.

Tags: stimulus package,stimulus,jobs bill,economy,deficit,david moberg,state governments,obama,job creation,unemployment,tmc

Submitted 3 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

Going Beyond Short-Term Fixes (www.salon.com) TMC

We need massive, permanent federal investment in infrastructure and public services, not symbolism like a new WPA

Tags: obama,job creation,job market,progressive,us government,taxes,tmc

Submitted 3 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

Weekly Audit: The Unemployment Epidemic (open.salon.com) TMC

The U.S. unemployment rate officially broke 10% for the first time since the early Reagan years. This is about as bad as it gets for a modern, developed economy. If Congress and President Obama... More

Tags: unemployment rate,unemployment,stimulus,obama,job creation,imf, stimulus,economic policy,congress,tmc

Submitted 4 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

JPMORGAN CREATES JOBS WITH BAILOUT MONEY (www.jimhightower.com) TMC

For us populist commentators, the Wall Street bailout is a gift that won't stop giving. I'd really like to give it a rest – but the bankers won't let me! The heads of these financial giants are... More

Tags: jp morgan,job creation,tmc,jim hightower

Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

On Job Creation (www.prospect.org) TMC

Obama's budget contains, among other things, a pretty simple trade off. Higher taxes on the rich get you guaranteed access to affordable health care among the poor. The objection to this has been... More

Tags: job creation,tmc,budget,barack obama,ezra klein

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Now We Have To Focus on Job Creation (www.thenation.com) TMC

There has been, and will continue to be, so much spin and posturing with regard to the tepid "stimulus" package that is today finishing the torturous dumbing-down process that began the minute it left... More

Tags: stimulus package,job creation,tmc

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Coalition: Restoring the Great Lakes Will Create Michigan Jobs (www.publicnewsservice.org) TMC

Part of the Obama administration economic stimulus package could put people to work by restoring the Great Lakes. Of the expected $6 billion to upgrade wastewater infrastructure nationally, Michigan's... More

Tags: michigan,job creation,great lake restoration,tmc

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Invest in Innovation (www.thenation.com) TMC

In the midst of our deepening recession, the United States faces another economic crisis that is less visible but may be more important than house foreclosures, bank failures, plant closings or stock... More

Tags: tmc,economy,innovation,leadership,high returns,economic leadership,job creation

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

A Jobless Rescue? (www.motherjones.com) TMC

The crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression imprinted an enduring image on the American imagination: millions of jobless workers on breadlines. By 1933, more than 25 percent of the US workforce... More

Tags: bailout,job security,great depression,unwemployment,tmc,job creation,department of labor,economic recovery

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

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