In an item time-stamped at 1:16 p.m. today (in case updated, here is a graphic capture of the first six paragraphs as they then appeared) covered by yours truly a short time ago (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the Associated Press’s Jeannine Aversa discounted [...]
Uncle Sam’s Bureau of Economic Analysis today revised economic growth in the third quarter downward a second time. After originally estimating annualized growth of 3.5% in October and then reducing it to 2.8% in November, the bureau’s “third estimate” issued today came in at 2.2%.
If that [...]
In Cleveland’s next economy, prosperity will depend more on brain development than real estate development.
Over the past decade, leading-edge economists and policy analysts have drawn the connection between early childhood education and economic development. See for example:
The prestigious Committee for Economic Development report, Preschool for All; Nobel laureate James Heckman’s [...]
From Greg Mankiw's blog.......
Just got the following statement from the Governor on the new budget compromise:
“Across the country, some states have chosen to slash education budgets in an attempt to make it through the recession. Here in Ohio, investing in education is the cornerstone of our plan to rebuild Ohio’s economy from [...]
Missouri has released its first report on green jobs.
Download the report here.
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In a year where no one person really stood out for accomplishing anything positively meaningful, Time had an obviously difficult task in naming a Person of the Year.
In picking Ben Bernanke, the magazine claims “he led an effort to save the world economy.”
Later, we read Bernanke is the [...]
The costs of generating solar power will be on par with the costs of power made from fossil fuels like natural gas and coal within a decade, according to clean-tech research and publishing firm Clean Edge and green-economy nonprofit Co-op America. The two groups collaborated on a report, the Utility [...]
In a Washington Post opinion piece published on December 6, longtime expansionary entitlement program apologists Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich ripped into the 1996 welfare reform law and its alleged effect on the poor during the struggling economy of the past two years.
In the course of their rant, Edelman [...]
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"Good, solid B-plus," the president said.
Explaining, he said, "we have inherited the biggest set of challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"We stabilized the economy, and prevented possibilities of [...]
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[...]GOP Rep. Steve Austria of Beavercreek responded to President Obama's speech by saying that "more government spending and debt is not the answer to growing our economy."
But when asked if he supported the small business tax cuts in Obama's proposal, Austria indicated that he did, but wants them [...]
David Brooks in his NYT article, “An Innovation Agenda,” is recommending an agenda that would help government “steer and spark innovation without controlling it.” He outlines nine actions he would like to see the government take in order to stimulate the economy:
Push hard to fulfill the Obama administration’s education [...]Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, says shes in agreement with President Obamas jobs creating strategy.
People in central Ohio know that we need to create jobs, not just retain jobs, which is why I agree that we should help the economy with fiscally responsible small business loans, tax [...]
GOP Sen. George V. Voinovich says he is encouraged that President Obamas economy speech today recognized that our federal spending is out of control.
The Ohio Republican, who is much more supportive in his reaction to Obamas speech than many in the GOP, is hoping that Obama will back [...]
