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
As our leaders on Capitol Hill debate health care and the implications of Senator Baucus' health care reform bill, our nation's economy continues to suffer and some on Capitol Hill are discussing the jobs situation behind the scenes. NBC's First Read reported yesterday that "For the...
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John Hanlon
on 10-09-2009
Filed under: stimulus package, stimulus, John Hanlon
President Obama wanted transparency, he said. He wanted accountability also. Nearly eight hundred billion dollars being spent in a stimulus bill was a lot of money and Obama wanted to use it to stimulate the economy and create jobs. A CBS News article from February noted that "Mr. Obama said the...
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John Hanlon
on 08-31-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, stimulus package, John Hanlon
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