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- February 9, 2012 - 10:10am
Christina D. Romer, the former chairwoman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, took U.S.
- January 20, 2012 - 2:37pm
If you want to win a bet next Tuesday, wager your friends that President Obama will say “Made in America” in the State of the Union address. It’s the closest you’ll ever get to a sure thing.
- January 11, 2012 - 4:50pm
Insourcing. That’s at the top of my trending list for 2012. But, how do we make reshoring—bringing job back from overseas—real? For America to have a thriving economy and lower unemployment, we need to create more good-paying jobs. And to do that, we’ll have to win back some of the jobs that have been shipped overseas for the past decade.
- August 4, 2011 - 1:17pm
We said it first last week. Now, everyone is catching on: it’s (past) time for Congress and the Administration to pivot to a jobs agenda.
- July 15, 2011 - 2:00pm
Enjoying the debt ceiling talks? The posturing, petulance, brinksmanship, bluffing? Well, let me make it a little bit more nauseating: China has pulled up a seat at the table. China’s leaders
- July 8, 2011 - 12:13pm
If the topline numbers of today’s jobs report weren’t depressing enough, consider some other facts that, taken together, strongly suggest that we are in a serious economic crisis. Let’s start with the basics. The unemployment rate crept up to 9.2% in June.
- June 14, 2011 - 1:57pm
That’s the word I’d use to describe the recent leadership of both Political Parties on American jobs, and especially factory jobs. The only development on Monday more depressing than President Obama’s trip to an outsourcing manufacturer in North Carolina was the Republican debate in New Hampshire last night.
- May 4, 2011 - 3:18pm
Within a week, as the news and analysis of Osama bin Laden's demise fades, the American people will focus once again on the issues that matter most to their daily lives. For most Americans, that includes the jobs market and the state of our economy.
- April 13, 2011 - 8:54am
Deficit fever has swept through our capital, and President Obama has finally caught it. However, his speech is focusing on the wrong deficit. And that’s because, quite sadly, our political culture is obsessed with the wrong deficit. Yes, the American people want to put our government's fiscal house in order. But, more than anything else, the American people want jobs.
