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Unintended Consequences

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

When Republicans say that we need to shrink the size of government, that sounds pretty good on paper, but they fail to mention that shrinking the government means that the government will employ fewer people. In fact, the Wall Street Journal calculated that if government were the same size it was back in December 2008 [...]

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Relentless Focus on Creating Jobs

Monday, December 26, 2011

After the 2010 midterm elections, the Republicans declared that their top priority was creating jobs. Mike Stanfill started keeping a list of all Republican Congressional activity, to see if the Republicans were telling the truth. As Stanfill notes, the fact that his list “has reached its currently imposing length without one anecdotal citation of new [...]

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Talking out of both sides of your two mouths

Monday, October 10, 2011

© Matt Wuerker Not to mention gladly taking Stimulus funds and bragging about the projects after voting against them.

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Cargo Cult

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Tom Toles Republicans believe if they keep repeating something over and over, people will believe. Even if it clearly isn’t working. We just haven’t done it enough yet, they say. When will we wise up?

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Republicans Focus on Jobs!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Republicans have finally kept their promise from the 2010 elections to focus on jobs. Yes, they got distracted by other pressing issues (like trying to outlaw abortion and repealing health care reform, not to mention destroying unions, Planned Parenthood, and NPR) but they finally released a draft budget proposal that does something about jobs, just [...]

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The Octangulator

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

© Jen Sorensen Sorensen has some interesting commentary to go with this comic about Obama’s seeming hyper-cautiousness. From the NY Times: A Democratic Congressional adviser, granted anonymity to discuss party deliberations, said: “We’re at a loss to figure out a way to articulate the argument [for economic stimulus] in a way that doesn’t get us [...]

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Suffer the Children

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Child poverty is a leading predictor of how our country is going to do in the future. Children (especially very young children) who experience poverty have more difficulty learning and are much less successful as adults. They are less likely to graduate from high school, more likely to become very young parents, and will earn [...]

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Washout

Sunday, September 4, 2011

© Clay Bennett Given the high unemployment rate, and the attacks on unions and the labor movement in general, is there much to celebrate on this Labor Day?

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Doing the Jobs Shuffle

Saturday, September 3, 2011

A few days ago I reported on the Justice Department filing suit to block the merger of AT&T with T-Mobile, but there is more news about how much AT&T has been lying about the benefits of their proposed merger. In order to promote the merger, AT&T announced that they would be moving 5,000 call center [...]

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Who’s Playing Politics?

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Obama requested a joint session of Congress next Wednesday at 8pm so that he can lay out his agenda for increasing employment. But the Republicans objected, since that is when one of their (more than 20) Republican presidential candidate debates is taking place, and accused Obama of playing politics — even though this debate is [...]

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Where are the jobs?

Sunday, August 14, 2011

© Jim Morin Have the Republicans actually done anything at all to create jobs? Well, other than their very tired and utterly refuted refrain that cutting taxes will fix our economy and increase jobs? After all, if cutting taxes leads to job creation, then the end of Dubya’s presidency should have seen employment increasing instead [...]

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The New World Order

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Salon has an interesting and fairly convincing article that claims the reason our social contract is unraveling is because the American people have “outlived their usefulness to the rich”. Even the robber barons of the 19th century depended on the poor and the middle class to work in their factories, buy the resulting goods, and [...]

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Republican Doublespeak

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Republicans who are gearing up to repeal the health care reform bill are trying to make the case that health care reform is bad for jobs. They even named the repeal bill the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act”. Now they are claiming that 650,000 jobs will be lost as a result of HCR, [...]

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Top Ten Excuses for Ignoring Unemployment

Monday, October 25, 2010

© Barry Deutsch

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The Last Two Workers in the US

Monday, October 18, 2010

© Ted Rall If businesses won’t start hiring until demand picks up, and consumers won’t start buying until they have jobs, then this scenario doesn’t seem to be that far fetched.

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