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• Stakes in the Ground?

  
  Lahdee's World — Authority: 118
  Democrats may have put some stakes in the ground for 2010. The first would be the President’s intention to seek domestic spending cuts.President Obama is expected to make post-recession spending restraint a key theme of his State of the Union address in January and an important element of the budget he submits to ...
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• The Oldest Washington Stunt in the Book

  
  Right Pundits — Authority: 140
  Just a year ago, in prepared remarks in Colorado, then Presidential candidate Barack Obama dismissed John McCain’s call for a commission on the U.S. crashing economy: “Just today, Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book – you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem. But ...
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• Talecris to Create 259 Jobs, Expand Facility in North Carolina

  
  EmploymentSpectator — Authority: 136
  Chalk another one up to the One North Carolina Fund.  Talecris Biotherapeutics , with the help of a $250,000 grant from the state, is expanding its facility in the research triangle and bringing in 259 jobs.   The jobs will be filled over a seven year period and the company is eligible for up to $4 million in ...
  2 days ago

• Think People

  
  Digital Beat — Authority: 92
  People are the "killer app." From e-mail, to digital pictures, to todays social media, connecting people to people has always been a motivating force for getting people on and keeping them on the Internet. And the value of the network grows and grows with each additional person on it.
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• What America Needs Now Is Job Creation

  
  An American Idiot — Authority: 427
  The Obama Administration can talk about saving jobs until they are blue in the face.  They can tell us they created a million new jobs – no wait, why not tell us it’s five million, it doesn’t matter what the number is.  As someone I admire once said, “Facts are stubborn things,”  10.2% vs. the promised ...
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• A Jobs Summit Or a Presidential Photo Op???

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  President Obama’s announcement that he’s holding a jobs summit at the White House in December is a really stupid idea on a variety of levels. First, it’s admitting that the irresponsible and expensive stimulus bill is a failure. Second, it highlights the fact that unemployment during the OBama administration has ...
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• The Progressive ~ 1929 and 2009: A public job program is the answer

  
  Past in Print Weblog — Authority: 107
  From The Progressive , posted 27 October 2009, by Julianne Malveaux : [ snip ] By [1932] the Great Depression was raging, with unemployment rates rising to 25 percent. To combat unemployment and alleviate poverty, the federal government engaged in a massive public works and jobs program through the Works ...
  3 days ago

• Only in America

  
  Bent Corner — Authority: 136
  Thanks to an old Google Alert I had set up at least a year ago, I read today that my former employer, the company that laid me off nearly two months ago because they wanted to “lower the head... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• New Unemployment Claims Drop, but Economy Still Losing Jobs

  
  EmploymentSpectator — Authority: 136
  New unemployment claims dropped off last week, to a seasonally adjusted 502,000. That’s that fewest new claims since the week ending January 3 of this year. Analysts were expecting a higher number, but caution that it needs to fall even further before we will see a true turn around. New claims in the low 400,000 ...
  3 days ago

• Revolutionary Road

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia WITH the unemployment rate at 10.2 percent and job creation creeping along despite increased spending on infrastructure, we should look with new eyes at a resource we’ve failed to take full advantage of: the Interstate highway system. Much of President Obama’s stimulus package has gone ...
  4 days ago

• The USGBCs 2009 Green Jobs Report

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 645
  This study, conducted by the U.S. Green Building Council and Booz Allen Hamilton, predicts that the green building industry will be responsible for the creation or support of 7.9 million jobs, contributing $554 billion to the U.S. GDP, in the next four years.
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• The USGBCs 2009 Green Jobs Report

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 549
  This study, conducted by the U.S. Green Building Council and Booz Allen Hamilton, predicts that the green building industry will be responsible for the creation or support of 7.9 million jobs, contributing $554 billion to the U.S. GDP, in the next four years.
  4 days ago

• Greenbuild 2009: Research Explores Buildings Impact on Jobs, Water, Real Estate

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 645
  A slew of reports released during Greenbuild 2009 explore how green buildings are impacting resource use, the job market, facility management and more.
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• Greenbuild 2009: Research Explores Buildings Impact on Jobs, Water, Real Estate

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 549
  A slew of reports released during Greenbuild 2009 explore how green buildings are impacting resource use, the job market, facility management and more.
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• Is Buy American Bad for America?

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 645
  Regulations included in the stimulus bill passed earlier this year required American-made products to be used in stimulus-funded projects. But in a world dominated by global supply chains, a "buy American" rule is simply bad business.
  5 days ago

• Economists Seek to Fix a Defect in Data That Overstates the Nation’s Vigor

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  NO WONDER THE LEADERS ARE CLUELESS ABOUT MAIN STREET REALITY… THEY DON’T KNOW ANY BETTER, AND THEY CERTAINLY DON’T LISTEN TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/business/economy/09econ.html Excerpts: “WASHINGTON — A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government’s ...
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• Washington Painting the Walls When the Roof is Leaking

  
  Purple People Vote — Authority: 116
  As unemployment hit 10.2% last week the House in a special Saturday session of Congress passed health care bill that is costly and unpopular. In a great example of politicians being out of touch, Congress has decided that health care reform takes precedence over the economy and jobs even when poll after poll ...
  6 days ago

• Counting Jobs Saved by Obama’s Fiscal Stimulus

  
  Jeff Frankels Weblog — Authority: 501
  The National Journal asks: “Is the Obama administration’s stimulus plan helping to create or “save” 650,000 jobs, as the president and his aides say? Is that an appropriate way to measure the stimulus’ impact?” I am astounded by claims that fiscal stimulus under recession circumstances doesn’t ...
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• Why Won’t the President Just Create the Jobs?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  The Washington Post’s Alec MacGillis asks a rather provocative question in today’s Outlook section: “Why won’t Obama give you a job?” The article challenges the Administration’s claim that “the stimulus is working” and argues that the Administration could have done or be doing better for the ...
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• Broader unemployment rate hits 17.5% as companies get smarter about staff

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Economy The weekly blizzard of economic statistics makes it tough to figure out what is really going on. But with a near-record number of people unemployed or underemployed, productivity at very high levels, and pay rising for the people who still have jobs, one conclusion seems to jump out: Companies ...
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