By a vote of 217 to 212, the House approved additional spending for "shovel-ready" construction projects and money to avoid layoffs of teachers, police and other public employees. No Republicans voted for [...]
Many moons ago, conventional wisdom with work and compensation was this. You could take a "safe" job - work for the government, for example. But to gain that measure of safety and security, you'd give up the opportunity to make big bucks. Conversely, if high income was your goal, you'd [...]
Those who've listened to my radio program the last two weeks have heard me obsess over this survey of job openings, hirings and job separations. Thanks to Calculated Risk for the graph above. Those red bars indicate the rate at which workers are being involuntarily' [...] Kent Kaiser wrote the following piece about what needs to be done on election reform in Minnesota. The Duluth News Tribune also followed up with their own opinion on the matter. The writing is on the wall. Secretary of State Mark Richie has failed at his job and must [...]
Presents are bought and wrapped. Tree is up and decorated. Lights are on the house. Snowmobile is tuned up and ready to go. Snowblower is running. I am officially ready for Christmas and a Minnesota winter. Bring it on!
Democrats want to push for job creation so [...]
Lately my day job has been a day-and-night job. I just got home from Oklahoma City, where I spent the week. There was virtually no time to follow the news; all I know is that President Obama gave a speech and Tiger Woods got into some kind of trouble. (In [...]
The November report on jobs is out and it contains reasonably good news. The best news is that the number of jobs dropped by only 11,000 and the job loss number for September and October was revised downward by 260,000. In addition, the weekly number of hours worked [...]
Under the traditional law of employment discrimination, an employee alleging illegal termination can make out a prima facie case by alleging his membership in a protected class and adequate performance of his job. To rebut the prima facie case, an employer need only explain the termination by producing evidence of [...]
Meggan Ellingboe who works in communications for SEIU has created a blog to promote job openings for political jobs in Minnesota. While she has a history in DFL politics, her goal for this site is to feature jobs on both sides of the aisle.
Currently, there are a few jobs posted [...]
President Obama said at a news conference today that he will "finish the job" in Afghanistan:
After eight years, some of those years in which we did not have, I think, either the resources or the strategy to get the job done, it is my intention to finish the [...]Even congressional Democrats are disgusted with the Obama administration's phony accounting of what the stimulus plan supposedly is accomplishing. Earlier this week, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey lambasted the government's flawed data purporting to show that $160 billion in stimulus spending has created or saved at least 640,000 jobs. [...]
