Underscoring the fact that our economy has not yet fully recovered, a recent Gallup poll showed that many Americans have continued doubts about the availability of good jobs in today's job market. With the unemployment rate a little below ten percent and with talk of a new but politically unpopular...
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John Hanlon
on 10-16-2009
Filed under: stimulus package, jobs, John Hanlon, job creation
Last week while at my son's summer camp in West Virginia, a friend and fellow counselor told me he was recently offered a full-time job by the local school board that he has served as a technology consultant. He declined the offer for various reasons, chief among them being that the job was tied...
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K. Daniel Glover
on 07-29-2009
Filed under: stimulus package, jobs, fact check, spin, job creation
Kudos to Klein ABC News’ Rick Klein for doing his job by pointing out how the Obama Administration is " Moving the Stimulus Goalposts ." Klein writes: Today brings this explanation, from Christina Romer, the chairman of the president’s Council on Economic Advisers: Stimulus spending...
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Alexa Shrugged
on 06-29-2009
Filed under: media makes good, stimulus package, stimulus, job losses, economic crisis, unemployment, jobs, expectations
According to a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article on unemployment , "The unemployment rate rose in all but two states last month, and in eight states it reached the highest level in the 34 years on record." The article later noted that several states are willing to raise their taxes in...
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John Hanlon
on 06-21-2009
Filed under: jobs, federal government, local communities