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President Obama’s News Conference on the American Jobs Act

admin — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:19:53 +0000

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The President said, I hope every senator thinks long and hard about what's at stake when they cast their vote on the Jobs Act. October 6, 2011.

President Obama Presents American Jobs Act (Enhanced Version)

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:02:11 +0000

President Obama

Shares plan to create jobs with joint session of Congress. September 8, 2011.

President Obama Address to Congress(September 8 2011) Full Speech

admin — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:13:09 +0000

Obama Live September 8 2011 pushes Congress to act now on economy - politics - White House WASHINGTON — Calling it an "urgent time for our country," President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday night to "stop the political circus" and approve a nearly half-trillion-dollar plan to help the economy by cutting payroll taxes, raising taxes on the wealthy and rewarding companies that hire new workers. "We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless and a political crisis that has made things worse," Obama said in an address to a joint session of Congress. To answer that crisis, Obama was proposing what he called the American Jobs Act, which he said would cut payroll taxes in half for working Americans and most small businesses; boost spending on public works, like roads, by 5 billion; and make permanent a temporary cut in the individual tax rate, which was reduced from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for this year only. 1. Other political news of note 1. First Read: The CBO and short-term fixes The Congressional Budget Office released a report in January that looks at some of the short-term policies the president might ask Congress to enact in his speech Thursday night. 2. Analysis: Perry takes the heat but keeps on smiling 3. Perry's Merck link in spotlight following vaccine order 4. Payroll tax cut likely hub of Obama's jobs plan 5. Congressional debt reduction panel kicks off Obama calculated that the "typical working family" would ...

President Obama Address to Congress FULL SPEECH

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:01:32 +0000

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President Obama gives an INCREDIBLE SPEECH and PLAN to create JOBS for America but will the REPUBLICANS/TEA-PARTY allow PRESIDENT OBAMA to do his job and help this COUNTRY?

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future (Vintage)

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:04:27 +0000

Updated for paperback publication, Aftershock is a brilliant reading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a plan for dealing with its challenging aftermath. Â When the nationâ��s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy, suggests another reason for the meltdown. Our real problem, he argues, lies in the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of the richest Americans, while stagnant wages and rising costs have forced the middle class to go deep into debt. Reichâ��s thoughtful and detailed account of where we are headed over the next decadesâ��and how we can fix our economic systemâ��is a practical, humane, and much-needed blueprint for restoring Americaâ��s economy and rebuilding our society.

Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:46:37 +0000

The New York Times bestseller: "A lucid account" (New York Times) of the recent financial crisis and the way forward by the Nobel Prize-winning economist, with a new afterword.The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exported across the globe with devastating consequences. The crisis has sparked an essential debate about Americaâ��s economic missteps, the soundness of this countryâ��s economy, and even the appropriate shape of a capitalist system. Few are more qualified to comment during this turbulent time than Joseph E. Stiglitz. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Stiglitz is â��an insanely great economist, in ways you canâ��t really appreciate unless youâ��re deep into the fieldâ�� (Paul Krugman, New York Times). In Freefall, Stiglitz traces the origins of the Great Recession, eschewing easy answers and demolishing the contention that America needs more billion-dollar bailouts and free passes to those â��too big to fail,â�� while also outlining the alternatives and revealing that even now there are choices ahead that can make a difference. The system is broken, and we can only fix it by examining the underlying theories that have led us into this new â��bubble capitalism.â�� Ranging across a host of topics that bear on the crisis, Stiglitz argues convincingly for a restoration of the balance between government and markets. America as a nation faces huge challengesâ��in health care, energy, the environment, education, and manufacturingâ��and Stiglitz penetratingly addresses each in light of the newly emerging global economic order. An ongoing war of ideas over the most effective type of capitalist system, as well as a rebalancing of global economic power, is shaping that order. The battle may finally give the lie to theories of a â��rationalâ�� market or to the view that Americaâ��s global economic dominance is inevitable and unassailable. For anyone watching with indignation while a reckless Wall Street destroyed homes, educations, and jobs; while the government took half-steps hoping for a â��just-enoughâ�� recovery; and while bankers fell all over themselves claiming not to have seen what was coming, then sought government bailouts while resisting regulation that would make future crises less likely, Freefall offers a clear accounting of why so many Americans feel disillusioned today and how we can realize a prosperous economy and a moral society for the future.

President Obama Presents American Jobs Act

admin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:56:04 +0000

President Obama

Shares plan to create jobs with joint session of Congress. August 8, 2011.

President Obama Tells Congress to Pass Extensions

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:47:16 +0000

President Obama

Passing the Surface Transportation and FAA extensions will keep Americans on the job. August 31, 2011.

President Obama at the American Legion Conference

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:08:55 +0000

President Obama

Salutes Extraordinary Decade of Military Service by the 9/11 Generation. August 30, 2011.

President Obama Announces New Economic Adviser

admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:13:42 +0000

President Obama

Nominates Alan Krueger to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. August 26, 2011.