In his column “A vital helping hand,” Chris Fitzsimon sites a new report by The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which found 39 million Americans have benefited from the government’s economic recovery act. More government help is needed in the form of jobs creation to keep struggling families [...]
U.S. Rep. David Price says huge federal stimulus spending was necessary, but the growing national debt does give him pause.
Speaking at a congressional jobs roundtable this week, Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat, said that with the country caught in the worst recession in memory, Congress had no [...]
State Treasurer Janet Cowell told her employees in March, about two months after she’d been sworn in, that they and future employees couldn’t do business with or lobby the treasurer’s office for a year after they’d left their jobs.
Asked in August about the new policy and which employees had gone [...]
242 jobs won’t be saved* as Volvo will close its Asheville plant by the end of March. Even though construction is not as honorable as nonprofit work, Ray Denny, vice president for economic development of the local chamber of commerce, indicated:
State and local officials are planning “an aggressive campaign” [...]
I was sent this story/web link via email and the more I watched it, the more livid I became. Where is Hagan? Where is Burr? Where is Perdue, for crying out loud? What is happening to our country?
Read more [...]Worried about the economy, jobs and wages?
Not to worry, there is one major corporation that is growing, thriving, and I suspect hiring. In fact, roughly one in five workers in this corporation earns six figures – miraculously up from one in every seven during the last 18 months of recession.
“Progressives” take note, however: [...]
Raleigh’s Barack Obama re-election headquarters News & Observer offers this unthoughtful, economically illiterate Obama droolfest of an article regarding our President’s “plan” to create jobs.
The N&O editorial board must live in some alternate universe in which centrally-planned economies manage to efficiently allocate scarce resources without trampling on individual liberty. [...]
I blogged last week about Obama’s joke of a “jobs summit,” outlining what the all-too-predictable results will be:
more government spending, more central planning, more government redistribution, concessions to big labor and other special interests, and less freedom.
I wasn’t exactly going out on a limb with such prognostications, but today’s [...]
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The Foundation for Economic Education’s Sheldon Richman comments on yesterday’s farce “jobs summit” and provides a quick economics lesson in the process.
What are the odds that yesterday’s White House jobs summit will lead to the creation of any real jobs? The summit was based on the magic theory of [...]
President Obama is now considering new moves to create jobs, so expect the naysayers on the right to demand again that government stay out of their holy market(and let people suffer).
They said the same thing about the stimulus package passed earlier this year. But the Center on [...]
