Memo to Congress: To bring down the deficit, focus on jobs
Today, liberals in the House of Representatives will roll out a new plan to avert the sequester. It calls for more investment in job creation as a way to generate new revenues to bring down the...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough versus the world
The widely ballyhooed debate showdown between Paul Krugman and Joe Scarborough finally aired last night on Charlie Rose. The debate was the culmination of the battle that began when Scarborough...
View ArticleDo Congressional liberals have the only “Serious” budget in Washington?
Overlooked in the coverage of Paul Ryan’s budget and the budget released by Senate Democrats was the one crafted and presented by members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Called the “Back to...
View ArticleThe deficit is shrinking. Can we talk about unemployment now?
Is the United States close to running a budget surplus? So suggests the American Enterprise Institute’s James Pethokoukis, who highlights an analysis from Potomac Research, which notes two things....
View ArticleCongress has tackled the deficit — at the cost of the economy
This morning, Eric Rosengren, chief executive of the Boston Federal Reserve, cautioned lawmakers against further fiscal retrenchment, lest they slow the recovery. As he said at the Global...
View ArticleTowards a conservative jobs agenda
Yesterday, I wrote about the conservative poverty agenda, concluding that there wasn’t much of one. But another aspect of that conversation which I didn’t mention is about middle-class jobs. The...
View ArticleThe cult of long hours hurts the bottom and the top
The jobs created during the agonizingly slow recovery from the Great Recession have consisted in large part of low-paying, part-time positions. Strikes and other worker movements have often featured...
View ArticleFalling deficit reveals failure of U.S. elites on jobs
The Congressional Budget Office just released a new report that has Republicans very excited, but its key finding is that the deficit continues to shrink, suggesting that the short term emphasis on...
View ArticleOn jobs, conservatives are completely full of it
After the CBO report on Obamacare landed yesterday, finding that Obamacare would reduce labor supply by the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs, conservatives were beside themselves with glee. They blared...
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