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Opinion: Obama's Jobs Problem

(July 16) -- President Barack Obama invited Bill Clinton and Warren Buffett to the White House this week for some advice on how to kick-start the economy's jobs machine -- something that the $787 billion stimulus package passed last year was supposed to achieve. But Obama doesn't need to go around seeking advice from...

We Need to Continue Working to Create Jobs

(July 2) -- This past June, the economy gained 83,000 jobs in the private sector. Overall, employment declined by 125,000 and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.5 percent. The job losses are largely a result of 225,000 temporary census workers ending their service. However, over the first half of the year, we've seen the...

Opinion: Obama's Free Agent Draft

(Dec. 9) -- I don't know what the Obama girls want for Christmas, but I can guess their dad's top wish: that employers will hand out jobs like Santa Claus. But while the unemployment rate should fall as the economy picks up this spring, the recent recession has accelerated a long-term trend toward a "free agent economy,"...

Obama Pushes 'Cash for Caulkers'

WASHINGTON (Dec. 8) -- Cash for Caulkers may stick as the name. But a program proposed Tuesday by President Obama would give rebates to homeowners for a much broader range of projects to cut energy usage – like insulation, efficient appliances and new windows. And just like the Cash for Clunkers program for people...

Opinion: On Jobs, What's New Is New Again

(Dec. 8) -- Attention spans are notoriously short in Washington, but this is a bit ridiculous. "President Barack Obama will Tuesday lay out three new approaches to battling the U.S. jobs crisis," said one news account posted before Obama's speech later in the day. The "new" approaches he put forward: more money for roads...

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05/28/12 L.A.'s lost opportunity for job creation Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA On April 30, the L.A. Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted to award an $890-million contract for 235 light rail cars to Kinkisharyo International, a Japanese firm that will build a significant portion of the cars in Osaka, Japan , rather than in California.
05/28/12 Wales News: Carwyn Jones to publish report on first... Source: WalesOnline - UK A "warts and all" progress report on the first year of Carwyn Jones' Welsh Government will today admit a deterioration in some key policy areas over the past 12 months.
05/28/12 New Romney Ads Are Troubling Source: The Pilot - Southern Pines NC Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson died of strychnine poisoning near Greenwood, Miss., on Aug. 16, 1938, at the age of 27.
05/28/12 Business to look abroad for lessons in job creation Source: Business Day - South Africa THE South African office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Business Unity South Africa (Busa) and the Black Business Council (BBC) on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct global studies into local procurement before creating a programme that could boost job creation.
05/28/12 LETTER: We can't afford NDP's reckless approach Source: Daily Press of Ontario Federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair is opposed to resource development in Northern Ontario and the thousands of jobs that will result from it.