Jobs And Unemployment Report For August 2011 – More Bad News, More Signs...
This being the first Friday of the month, the latest U.S. employment report was released this morning. Not good news. In a nutshell: no new net jobs created and the unemployment rate holds steady at...
View ArticleState and Local Job Cuts are Accelerating, Making the Economy Worse and...
Nicholas Johnson at the Center on Budget and Policy Studies explains how state and local governments are cutting jobs and how a majority of those jobs lost are education jobs. September 2, 2011 at 1:24...
View ArticleThe Obama Jobs Proposal Is Less Than Stimulating
After over a year of Presidential and Congressional debate and sparring about how to reduce spending, cut deficits, and limit debts, the politicians in Washington have finally taken notice that we have...
View ArticlePolitics and Job-Creation Policies – Disagreements and The Theories Behind Them
Blogging time has been in short supply lately. To compound things, I’ve had a bunch of inter-woven ideas bouncing around in my head that I want to explain, but I’ve been struggling to figure out how...
View ArticleUPDATE on President Obama’s Jobs Proposal – Better, But Still Weak
First an update on a post I made a few days ago. When I commented last Monday on President Obama’s jobs proposal, I was less than excited. Having read more detail of the proposal, I should correct some...
View ArticleBusinesses (and Micro) Refute the Logic of Jobs Tax Credits
I wrote a few days ago about how I found the President’s American Jobs Act proposal to be less than stimulating and I updated my assessment yesterday. Much of the proposal involves a lot of complex tax...
View ArticleWhere Are or Were The Jobs?
With the all the alleged concern in Washington now from both parties about job creation, there’s something that’s missing in much of the debate: facts. So let’s take a look at some. I really like...
View ArticleStimulus Requires More Than Taking Your Foot Off the Brakes
Last week I discussed how I think the President’s jobs proposal, the American Jobs Act, will be less than stimulating. I updated it here. I based my analysis on what economists call “back of the...
View ArticleUpdate on Current Situation – October Jobs Report and 3rd Qtr GDP
Two of the more important (U.S.) economic measures were reported in last week and half. Yesterday the October jobs report came in. The week before we got the flash report on 3rd quarter GDP. Both...
View ArticleThere’s No “Skills Shortage”
There are plenty of reasons why higher education in the US needs to change. There are plenty of good reasons why community colleges in particular deserve greater investment. But the idea of a "skills...
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