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THEN October 2009 – unemployment rate 10.0%; debt $7.5 trillionWhen an extension of federal unemployment benefits was paid for, the…
Read More (Having It Both Ways?)Rhetoric“A well designed recovery plan will not only create numerous jobs, but also many jobs paying good wages and providing…
Read More (Apparently It Wasn’t a “Well Designed Recovery Plan”)In the wake of recessions, the Federal government typically creates a “temporary” Federal unemployment benefits program for long-term unemployed workers…
Read More (Federal Unemployment Benefits, Supersized)Economists say the 2007-09 recession officially ended in June 2009. Yet, as the fifth year of the “Obama Recovery” begins,…
Read More (In the Fifth Year of the “Obama Recovery,” Another Discouraging Labor Day for American Workers)The headlines citing last week’s jobs report as the lowest unemployment rate in years may have been technically accurate, but…
Read More (Part-Time Nation)Then “US President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to work tirelessly to get unemployed Americans back to work now that new…
Read More (Get Ready For Full Employment, America)As the President heads back out on the road to talk about jobs, it is worth looking back at the…
Read More (On the Road Again – and Again and Again)“Welcome to the Recovery” said then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in a New York Times op-ed published in August 2010. In…
Read More (Welcome to the Obama Recovery – Four Years On)“A well designed recovery plan will not only create numerous jobs, but also many jobs paying good wages and providing…
Read More (Despite Administration’s Promises, Still No Raises for American Workers)As Father’s Day (June 16) and the third anniversary of the Obama Administration declaration of the start of “Recovery Summer”…
Read More (Little Employment Joy for Men on Father’s Day 2013)