Economy
February 23, 2010 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest A war of words is raging over the impact of the Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus program, which is now one yearold. Conservative members of Congress are mounting a relentless assaulton what they see as an abject failure, even as many of them unabashedlypromote and at least implicitly take credit for individual American
February 19, 2010 -
NOTE: I'm back from a family funeral in South Carolina. Thanks to my colleague Sue Sturgis for holding down the fort in my absence.
February 16, 2010 -
NOTE: The following contribution comes from Claudia Rowe, a writer with the Equal Voice newspaper of the Marguerite Casey Foundation. By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice By now, the drumbeat is impossible to ignore: Job, jobs, jobs. With one in 10 adults unemployed, President Obama had little choice but to highlight jobs during his Jan. 27 State of the Union address. He mentioned the term nearly 30 times during the hour-long speech.
February 12, 2010 -
U.S. unemployment rate in January 2010: 9.7%