from Americans for Prosperity
Over the last year, Americans for Prosperity has criss-crossed the nation holding rallies featuring AFP's 7-story high hot air balloon emblazoned with our message: "Cap-and-Trade means higher taxes, lost jobs and less freedom."
Now, with the battle over climate change at a fever pitch, Americans for Prosperity is' [...]
CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn is defending the creation of new taxpayer-funded jobs amid the state's growing budget problems.
Quinn signed an executive order over the weekend creating a state public health advocate. Less than two weeks ago, Quinn named a new czar to' [...]
from the RNCC
The controversy over the stimulus package continues, both nationally and in Illinois – creating a political problem for the Illinois Democrats who blindly supported the bill that has created more government, but not more jobs.
All three of Illinois’ vulnerable Democrats in the House- Melissa Bean, [...]
Republicans may be getting a chance to see how a U.S. Senator Mark Kirk would respond when taking on a tough fight in the US. Yesterday, at a press conference on how many jobs Obama's health care would cost Illinois, Kirk was asked about his position on the Thomson Correctional' [...]
The Sun-Times is reporting today that at least 70 "top-paid hires from the Blagojevich era" remain in their state jobs "despite coming under scrutiny in a federal investigation of what U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald termed in 2006 were 'very serious allegations of endemic hiring fraud'" [...]
Report: Prison Deal Could Create 3,000 Jobs
According to a White House analysis, a deal to transfer
Guantanamo Bay detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center could bring
nearly 3,000 jobs to the area. Up to 1,400 hundred of those could be
filled with local residents.
The honeymoon is definitely over for Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live.By Lynn Sweet
Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON -- A White House analysis of a federal purchase of the nearly vacant northwestern Illinois prison to house Guantanamo detainees and other federal prisoners, obtained by the Sun-Times on Saturday, concludes that in the first year 2,290 to 2,960 jobs [...]
WASHINGTON--As Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Saturday leads a tour of the nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center--a top Obama White House contender to house Guantanamo detainees--the White House released its first detailed economic impact statement on the jobs and money that will be channeled to northwestern Illinois if the [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, returned from a weeklong tour of Asia where he is promoting "a new era of American engagement," says the continent holds promise for Americn exports that can spur new jobs at home.
"Asia is a region where we now buy more goods and" [...]
from Kristina Rasmussen, Illinois Policy Institute
Picking up on a story from ABC News about stimulus jobs created in phantom congressional districts, I sorted the Illinois job count spreadsheet from Recovery.gov by recipient congressional district, and I found jobs/awards reported for the following "districts":
District "0"
20th District
21st District
22nd District
28th District
33rd [...]
“The government reports touting the number of jobs created by the [...]
by Mark Silva
The White House is pushing back on the alleged "fiction'' of jobs created or saved under the $787-billion federal timulus bill - particularly what it views as the fiction surrounding reports that Recovery.gov, the official online accounting of where all the money is going, listed all sorts" [...]
Democrat Rep. Phil Hare today endorsed the plan to house enemy terrorists at the Thomson prison. Noting that it would create jobs, Hare snipped at Republican critics - and presumably every Illinoisan who disagrees with him.
Now there's some Hare today that should be gone tomorrow.
' [...]Just in the past week, two key Democratic leaders in Washington expressed interesting in crafting a federal jobs package that would likely extend federal unemployment insurance for workers who exhaust their benefits after December 31. But they better move quickly, as more than one million unemployed Americans are scheduled to lose their insurance [...]
Despite double-digit unemployment, jobs fleeing the state, political corruption, and fiscal bankruptcy, Illinois' legislators have finally focused on a real crisis - school bus safety.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has already expressed some interest in extending unemployment insurance through 2010. Now it appears that Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is thinking along the same lines.
In a news conference today, the House majority leader said now that his chamber has passed its own version of [...]
by Mark Silva and updated
The Obama administration promised "transparency'' in the accounting of that $787 billion in economic stimulus spending.
Jonathan Karl and his eagle-eyed colleagues at ABC News saw right through it: In the case of those 30 jobs created or saved and $761,420 spent in Arizona's'" [...]
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a Republican, has suggested merging several state universities, which would cut the number of public colleges in his state from eight to five. from the Illinois Republican Party
Despite Quinn’s claim, AP reports Colorado officials were never contacted on possible GITMO transfer
Durbin, Quinn also claimed moving GITMO would create 3,000 jobs, but Bureau of Prisons says it would only hire between 450 and 500 with no preference for immediate area
CHICAGO – Illinois Republican Party [...]
Michigan's economy has been in a free-fall for several years. The Great Lake State has the nation's highest unemployment rate. More than any state, Michigan needs jobs. 
