Just not in the White House:
The community I represent in Cleveland, Ohio, is suffering from massive unemployment, record home foreclosures, and small business failures. People are losing their jobs, their health care, their homes, their savings, their investments, and their retirement security. The middle class is gravely threatened. What [...]
But is it a waste of time?
“You graduate high school, you go to college and you get a job. That’s the standard. That’s beat into your head,” said Ms. Chaput, whose tuition mostly is paid by the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. “College is hyped up, but at the end of [...]
From the Macon County Times:
Calling for action to create jobs, improve education and strengthen the economy, Carthage native Jamie Winkler has announced he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the State House of Representatives District 40 serving Dekalb, Macon and Smith counties.
“It’s time our representatives paid attention [...]
At least not rhetorically, not yet:
“The best way to get rehired is to do a good job at what you’re doing, and so I’m just trying to be the best congressman that I can and I think the politics will take care of itself.”
Rep. Phil Roe thinks we need to go all in on Afghanistan — or not at all:
“There are two ways to go,” Roe said. “We should give the military people what they need to do the job or pack up and come home. We didn’t do that in Vietnam. [...]
“There are no easy answers for these communities,” said Bill Fox, executive director of the University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research. “Those jobs are gone, and small towns have to realize that the future is not in manufacturing employment.”
As with many former OshKosh employees, the [...]
First, it was the balloon boy.
Half of Colorado was desperately trying to rescue what they thought was a child in a helium-filled balloon. And half of the word was watching it on television.
It was big, fat fake. A mother and father were longing for a gig on a [...]
"Only" fourth-highest . . . it's amazing what you can find to be thankful about in a recession, huh?
Stephen Yeargin writes of a conversation he had with a young man who was barely keeping his head above water after an accident.
David was involved in a serious car accident earlier this year that had left him bedridden. The glass repair job was a fairly recent development for him [...]
Will see if this very time restrictive $400,000 "Reinvestment" bus experiment pays-off. [...]
ObamaCare By the Numbers
Meredith Jessup
5.5 million — Number of jobs that could be lost as a result of taxes on businesses that cannot afford to provide health insurance coverage, according to a model developed by Council of Economic Advisors Chair Christina Romer
$729.5 billion — Total new taxes on [...]
More and more soldiers returning from war are finding themselves in a battle for civilian jobs.
New numbers from the Tennessee Department of Labor show unemployment stayed at a consistent 10.5% from September to October, though it continues to exceed the national average of 10.2%.
More than 100,000 [...]
Middle Tennessee State University has done a great job analyzing the housing market in Tennessee for the 3th quarter, 2009. In the link below they give data on employment, permits, repeat sales, mortgage tax collections, transfer tax collections, foreclosures, and inventory.
Economic activity contracted again for Tennessee’s economy in [...]
Justin Owen don’t like statist corporations:
UPS has recently teamed up with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to force unionization on FedEx employees. The costs could mean the loss of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue for the state of Tennessee.
“Rather than compete in the marketplace, [...]
On October 27th, he went to his job (which was supposed to continue through next spring) and was told he had 2 weeks to finish what they were doing and everything else was being put off until next year. The feller who Lacy was doing work for owns several [...]
