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