On December 8, Susan Gustafson at MLive.com proclaimed that “GM’s announcement of no more layoffs is good news after years of hemorrhaging jobs”:
General Motors’ announcement this morning that it plans no further layoffs in the immediate future is huge news for both the automaker and Michigan [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today joined U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Sec. Tom Vilsack to outline how more than $2 million in new funds for Ohio broadband expansion will help stimulate new economic growth and create jobs. Brown and Vilsack were joined by U.S. Reps. Mary [...]
The problem is, I can’t tell where The Dispatch’s obfuscating octogenarian Joe Hallett draws the line between his two jobs, both of which he is handsomely paid for in gold bars.
For example, this is from Joe’s column on Sunday, where he continues his endless support of higher taxes while [...]
I received e-mails from both our Democratic U.S. Senate candidates today. I reproduce them here without comment:
Lee Fisher:
Dear Anastasia,
Contribute today!
Together we've taken a very visible stand in our campaign for the U.S. Senate on issues like passing meaningful health insurance reform and pushing for new efforts to create jobs' [...]
As I've been reiterating, the 2010 election is about jobs.The grim news hasn't made headlines in Ohio's largest newspaper. But journalists and retirees received word this week in letters entitled "Summary Annual Report" that their union pension fund took a major hit in the wake of the Wall Street financial collapse. Newroom employees who don't hold management jobs are [...]
Ohio's unemployment rate was 10.6 percent in November, relatively unchanged from 10.5 percent in October, but at the same time Ohio was of the top five states in adding jobs last month.
Fewer states add jobs as recovery sputters along
In all, 19 states added jobs in November, down [...]
This in via e-mail from Representative Matt Szollosi:
Rep. Szollosi, Ohio House Pass Legislation to Boost Environment, Jobs
House Promotes Solar Panels and “Green” Construction Jobs
COLUMBUS – The Ohio House and Speaker Pro Tempore Matt Szollosi (D-Toledo) have approved two bills that promote the environment and economic development in Ohio. [...]
Missouri has released its first report on green jobs.
Download the report here.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown is backing a plan unveiled today by Vice President Biden to expand a clean energy manufacturing tax credit cap to $5 billion - as long as the money goes to create jobs in the United States.
The Ohio Democrat said that he is concerned about reports [...]
The U.S. unemployment rate exceeded 10% in October for the first time in a quarter century. Over 15 million Americans are able and willing to work but cannot find a job. More than one out of every three unemployed workers has been out of a job [...]
From The Zanesville Times Recorder:
Ohio’s $1.4 billion Third Frontier program already has created nearly 10,000 new jobs and nearly $300 million in tax revenues since it was approved by voters in 2005, a new report by a coalition of business executives said.
All of the state dollars will be paid [...]
New era: Health authorities open brothels to male prostitutes
Men may now join the ranks of Nevada’s brothel prostitutes, after a unanimous decision today that added language to health codes so male sex workers could be tested for infectious diseases.
Men were previously barred in Nevada from the oldest profession [...]
John Boehner is advocating a Free Trade pact with North Korea, Panama and Colombia using the argument that this would create U.S. Jobs, and according to reports President Obama seems agreeable to this. The only problem is Free Trade Agreements are really really bad for manufacturing communities like Sidney.
It wasnt [...]
Green Party Candidate for Ohio Governor Dennis Spisak announced that Ohio should get in line and follow the Apollo Alliance plan to grow Blue-Green Jobs here in the Buckeye State.
In the Apollo Report, last Thursday, the White House sponsored a Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth to generate ideas from [...]
From The White House Blog responding to Minority Leader Boehner's op-ed in today's Washington Post:
Today, House Minority Leader John Boehner has an op-ed in the Washington Post. Unfortunately, what we heard from Congressman Boehner was more of the same, status quo, business-as-usual policies that led us to this crisis.
Just' [...]
Whether it is George W. Bush’s “too big to fail” Wall Street Bailout fraught with Reagan-era economic theory or last January’s Wall Street-centric stimulus that bypassed Main Street, there is growing recognition in Washington, DC that 2010 demands a 2010 solution.
While conservatives are stuck on Wall [...]
Ohio Green Party Candidate for Governor Dennis Spisak announced today that in just one week another two states are passing Ohio in moving towards more Wind Turbines to produce renewable energies and jobs.
"California and even Wyoming announced plans to build wind turbine farms to make gains in renewable energy while [...]
This in via e-mail from the office of Ohio Treasurer Kevin Boyce, an interesting link to also visit is here where you can see the variation in starting salaries paid to Census workers in Ohio. A quick example, Census workers in Toledo would earn $14.25 an hour; in Bowling [...]
