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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Action alert, everyone find the nearest Republican office holder, party official, and candidate and make them read this.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 62% believe tax cuts are a better way to create jobs and fight unemployment. Only 21% believe that additional stimulus spending is [...]
Of course Pelosi is now talking about passing a “jobs bill”, too bad they already did that.
Anyways, this is pretty scary.
[...]Yeah, the White House seems to have officially adopted their Voter ID model for broader economic work.
Exclusive: Jobs ‘Saved or Created’ in Congressional Districts That Don’t ExistLate Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused [...]
Minnesota’s Freedom Foundation Report:
STIMULUS FUNDS CREATING NONEXISTENT JOBS IN NONEXISTENT LOCATIONS
Minnesota ’s 57th congressional district reports 35 jobs with $600,000 in spending
You’d never know it without going on line to the new and improved federal government stimulus tracking website, but the economy and jobs picture is really picking [...]
I'm a huge believer in as much transparency as possible in government. (Defense and intelligence are areas where it is tough.)
Still - this is a bit too much transparency, doncha think?!
Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 9th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved [...]
Our friends at the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota have been scouring Recovery.gov for the good news from the Land of 10,000 and eight congressional districts. They report:
MINNEAPOLIS, MN--You'd never know it without going online to the new and improved federal government stimulus tracking website, but the economy and jobs' [...]
If the "jobs stimulus" can do this in Massachussets, just imagine what it can do for health care.
“We see $15 million construction projects with no jobs, and a $900 shoe sale that created nine jobs. Both are obviously wrong,’’ said Michael Balsam, chief solutions officer for Onvia, a Seattle [...]
