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
It has now been over three full months since President Obama signed the massive stimulus bill into law. Last Friday, the May jobs report (the third full month after the bill was signed) was officially released and many pundits and politicians from both sides of the political aisle were eager to discuss...
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John Hanlon
on 06-08-2009
Filed under: stimulus, jobs, Biden, jobs report
A new Gallup poll noted that although a clear majority of respondents (69%) still call the economy “the most important problem facing the United States today,” that number has decreased from last month. The article about the poll stated that “About two-thirds of Americans, down from...
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John Hanlon
on 05-14-2009
Filed under: economy, stimulus, economic crisis, jobs, Biden, poll
President Obama’s prediction of 3.5 million jobs arising out of the stimulus bill is starting to unravel, as was inevitable. Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told C-SPAN yesterday that we won’t see positive job growth until 2010. This follows April’s...
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Eric Fehrnstrom
on 05-11-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, budget, taxes, stimulus, unemployment, jobs