The Jobs Search
Today, groups representing thousands of employers across the nation wrote a letter in support of the unemployment insurance reforms Republicans…
Read More (Employers across the Nation Support Republican Reforms to Unemployment Insurance)In today’s meeting of the Conferees for H.R. 3630, the “Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act,” Democrat Conferees…
Read More (Education Pays)On January 24, 2012, the President said in his annual State of the Union Address: “This is a make or…
Read More (Then and Now: Little Reason to Believe President’s Latest Policies Will Be Any More Successful than His Past Policies)Last night President Obama had this to say about the importance of completing high school for teenagers: “We also know…
Read More (Hallelujah – We Agree! House UI Reforms Require High School Dropouts to Pursue GED, Mirroring President’s Call in SOTU)Then In a November 30, 2003 New York Times op-ed titled “The Unemployment Myth,” former Obama chief economist Austan Goolsbee…
Read More (Then and Now: The “Invisible Unemployed” Are a Visible Reminder that the Economic Recovery Has a Long Way to Go)Today’s Fiscal Times features a round-up of a bipartisan group of economic, political and public policy experts who issued their…
Read More (The Jobs Search: The Report Card Is In: President’s Economic Grade Is a C-Minus)In January 2009, the President’s economic advisors projected that his trillion-dollar stimulus plan would keep unemployment from rising above 8…
Read More (Obama Administration Presiding over Slowest Jobs Recovery since Records Were Kept)Much attention has been given to President Obama’s continued “focus” on passage of the American Jobs Act. As others have…
Read More (Giving Empty Rhetoric a Bad Name)Two surveys this week, one from the business research firm Sage North America and one from the National Federation of…
Read More (Recent Surveys Show Democrat Policies Continue to Prevent Job Creation)President Obama this week said Americans are better off due to his policies: “I think that we are better off…
Read More (Do 14 Million Unemployed Feel “Better Off” Due to “All the Steps” the Obama Administration Has Taken?)