Shortly after jobless claims numbers were released, Sen. Russ Feingold issued a statement announcing the introduction of a jobs tax credit bill:
“Today’s jobs report clearly shows we need to do more to help people get back to work. With the unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, the highest since the [...]
Ouch, that smarts.
Wisconsin employers cut 129,600 jobs since October 2008, the steepest year-to-year plunge in 70 years of data.
The state Department of Workforce Development is scheduled report on job losses and unemployment midday Thursday. But preliminary estimates from a state database and historical figures from the [...]
President Obama is now the Alfred E. Neuman of US Politics
AP: Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case
Ummmm…wasn’t this the same administration who said unemployment wouldn’t go over 8%?
I wonder if this will be another opportunity for Vice President Biden to tell us, after the fact, that the [...]
Anyone who has followed the disaster that is state government finance could hardly have been surprised at this news:
Wisconsin residents should brace for more tax increases and service cuts, based on an analysis that rated the state’s budget predicament among the 10 worst in the country.
The rise in unemployment [...]
Oh, but not in a good way.
A new analysis of Wisconsin’s budget woes puts the state among the 10 most fiscally challenged in the country, joining California in a group struggling to sustain solvency.
The rise in unemployment and steep drop in state revenue [...]
My column for the West Bend Daily News is online. It’s called, “Hope doesn’t pay the bills.” Here’s a sniff:
When President Obama was arguing to pass his Recovery Act (a.k.a. Stimulus Bill), the U3 unemployment rate was 7.6 percent. The President published a [...]
(Or Dumb Things Jay Bullock types without thinking...)
Reagan-era unemployment numbers mean we should be demanding a return to Reagan-era tax rates.
Yes, lower them from the current 36% (or is it 40% once Pelosi lets the Bush tax cuts expire?) to the 28% for the [...]
Posted in Video Tagged: 
Posted in Cartoons Tagged: 
