As the Washington Post today reported, the chairman of the Business Roundtable “accused the president and Democratic lawmakers Tuesday of creating an ‘increasingly hostile environment for ...
Despite the Administration’s declaration that this is the “Summer of Recovery,” data released today by the
CHRISTINA ROMER, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers: “By mid-2010, fiscal stimulus will likely be contributing little to growth.” (October 22, 2009)
Vice President Biden on June 2, 2010 predicted that jobs would grow by a total of 700,000 to 1.4 million during the remainder of 2010: “I think we'll create between 100,000 and 200,000 jobs ...
While the President went to Ohio Monday and repeatedly claimed his trillion-dollar 2009 stimulus plan was “the right thing to do,” it’s hard to tell that from looking at the job situation across the U.S. According to ...
The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call noted on May 10, 2010 that even Democrats say the Obama Administration “hasn’t done enough” to prioritize job creation. “We were told we would focus like a laser after December. Well, we haven’t ...
The latest monthly jobs report shows the unemployment rate still hovering around 10 percent, at 9.9 percent in April. This is 2.5 percentage points (34 percent) higher than the unemployment rate the President promised once his stimulus bill was enacted.
One week ago, Vice President Biden predicted that “some time in the next couple of months we're going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month." That the Administration is making job predictions at all may seem ...
While the President recently said the economy had “turned a corner,” it’s hard to tell that from looking at the job situation across the U.S. According to the latest
On Sunday April 4, 2010, in discussing the effects of the Democrats’ February 2009 economic stimulus package, Dr. Christina Romer, Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers,