Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile
Commentary by Black Kos Editor Deoliver47The NAACP Does the Right (Left) ThingLast Friday, the NAACP gave Van Jones its highest award, "The President's Award", and Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and...
View ArticleStates Slow to Spend Weatherization Dollars
A year ago, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, nearly $5 billion was set aside in state and tribal grants to weatherize 590,000 of the homes of low-income residents over a period of...
View ArticleSadly for Republicans, the Stimulus Stimulated
"You can fool some of the people some of the time, and that's our target market." Judging from the rhetoric of House Minority Leader John Boehner, that's the Republican mantra when it comes to the...
View ArticleTriple Whammies, Double Dips and Job One
If creating new jobs is Job One for the Obama administration, then the past 24 hours have been a mixed blessing. Thursday brought good news of a continued if slow decline in first-time jobless claims,...
View ArticleObama Targets States' Drag on Economic Recovery
Over the weekend, President Obama wrote Congressional leaders urging action on a $50 billion aid package for the states designed in part to avert "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters."...
View ArticleWhat Washington Giveth, the States Taketh Away
By almost any measure, the $787 billion stimulus program has worked exactly as designed. The overwhelming consensus of economists is that the federal package has been a success, while the...
View ArticleMcCain Adviser, CBO Back Need for Jobs Bill
One day before Friday's dismal jobs report confirmed the pace of the U.S. recovery has slowed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the extension of unemployment benefits which "injects demand into...
View ArticleConservatives Vote to Torpedo Our Economy
Congress is out this week for the July 4 recess, and unemployment benefits will have run out for about 2.5 million Americans by the time they return on Monday since the Senate filibustered legislation...
View ArticleStudy Finds U.S. Recovery Programs Averted "Depression 2.0"
Friday's news that U.S. second quarter economic growth slipped to 2.4% produced shared concern across the political spectrum about the sluggish pace of the recovery. But among economists if not...
View ArticleMO-Sen: Blunt's stimulus hypocrisy
Count Roy Blunt among the stimulus hypocrites. ThinkProgress chronicles how, after voting against the the recovery act, but before his recent attacks on Democratic opponent Robin Carnahan for...
View ArticleRepublican Pledge: A Rotten Egg for the Middle Class
This week Republicans made a Pledge to America in a bid to win votes in the mid-term elections. The GOP promised to indulge the rich with tax breaks and penalize the middle class with rescinded health...
View ArticleJeff Reed: They're human beings, they're in love, let them marry
Curtis here, my candidate Jeff Reed took part in a virtual Q+A with the 20,000 member Beer Party group on Facebook. We had a good exchange, Jeff showed why his candidacy is worth supporting.Jeff Reed...
View ArticleI No Vote Feingold Just Cuz?
A Wisconsin voter and former supporter of Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold recently stated that she won't vote for the senator in the upcoming mid-term elections because Feingold supported the...
View ArticleKat's Daily Obama Administration Report, 11/28/10
Hi, all. Today's report features:• Recovery Act projects: Helping people live better in Tennessee; nuclear waste handling in South Carolina; communications for the deaf in Louisiana, and a...
View ArticleStates that spent stimulus on repairs and public transportation created more...
Despite evidence showing that spending on public transportation and road and bridge repairs produces far more jobs and does so faster than new construction, most states and Metropolitan Planning...
View ArticleThe Great Tax Cutter? Obama, Not Reagan
This weekend's Reagan centennial predictably produced paeans to the great tax cutter who never was. After all, in the wake of the his budget-busting 1981 tax cuts which ultimately tripled the national...
View ArticleThe Staten Island Democratic Association (SIDA) celebrates 3 Million jobs...
For Immediate Release: Feb 16, 2011 Contact: Roy Moskowitz, Reciprocal Results (718) 370-3977 Mobile: (917) 992-1873 Email: R2ceo@aol.com Richard Reichard SIDA ((718) 440-6717 Email:...
View ArticleAP underplays stimulus results
Good question from John Aravosis:Pretty good AP story about how the GOP is basically lying about the effect of their budget cutting, and the stimulus, on job creation (their budget cutting will kill...
View ArticleA Birthday Gift for President Obama
In 2008, I gave my money and my vote to Barack Obama. With somewhat less enthusiasm, I'll do the same in 2012. But on this his 50th birthday, it's time for a gift the President could really use.After...
View ArticleEvaluating the stimulus: Yes, it worked, but there's more to the story
The bad news from the CBO has elicited a predictable response. House Speaker John Boehner called the outlook "underwhelming" and blamed President Barack Obama. The jobless rate in 2012 is expected to...
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