Category Archives: Political
Democrats to Unveil Jobs Package; Spending Fight Looms
By NAFTALI BENDAVID And GREG HITT
Senate Democrats are preparing to release a roughly $80 billion jobs program this week, but its prospects are uncertain in a political landscape where voters are angry about unemployment yet fuming about federal spending.
Senate leaders are proposing that part of that money come from funds originally allocated to the financial-sector [...]
Obama team pitching budget, jobs plan on Hill
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Top administration officials mounted a strong sales pitch on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for President Barack Obama’s day-old $3.8 trillion budget, saying it would help lift the economy and keep the nation strong.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the $768.2 billion defense part [...]
White House Presses Senate on Jobs Bill
By COREY BOLES
WASHINGTON — The White House on Sunday urged the Senate to pass legislation quickly to stimulate growth in the moribund jobs market, as it ramps up efforts to address bread-and-butter issues important to voters.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said the administration was seeking a jobs [...]
USA-C Has Answer to President Obamas Job Creation Dilemma
USA-C Has Answer to President Obama’s Job Creation Dilemma
Made in USA-Certified Has Answer to President Obama’s Job Creation Dilemma: Safeguard American Jobs
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Made in USA-Certified, Inc (www.usa-c.com) announced today that the first step in President Barack Obama’s agenda to create jobs in the United [...]
White House Toughens Tone and Emphasizes Jobs
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
WASHINGTON—Coming off one of the most difficult weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has beefed up his political staff and is expected to deliver an uncompromising State of the Union address. Aides said Sunday that the White House wasn’t making any abrupt policy shifts, even as the message was retooled to focus more [...]
Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors
Heidi Przybyla
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey.
The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are only [...]
Worker Blasts Adidas’ Plan to Move NBA Jersey Production Overseas
by Joshua Rhett Miller, FOXNews.com
The lone major sport with its roots in America could soon see its premier players dunking and driving to the hoop wearing uniforms made in Thailand, costing nearly 100 workers their jobs in upstate New York.
Sports apparel giant Adidas plans to end its contract with Perry, N.Y.-based apparel supplier American [...]
Global Warming With the Lid Off
The emails that reveal an effort to hide the truth about climate science.
‘The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the U.K., I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone. . . . We also [...]
U.S. stimulus deal buoys U.K. factory’s workers
Backdrop for Obama’s announcement of fuel-efficiency grants? A couple of foreign-built trucks
Jason Reed / ReutersIn August, President Obama announced, at this event in Indiana, new funds to support the building of vehicles like the one behind him — which was manufactured in England.
F. Brinley BrutonReporter
Photographs of President Barack Obama run on a constant loop in the [...]
White House Ties Stimulus, Tax Cuts To 1 Million Jobs
White House Ties Stimulus, Tax Cuts To 1 Million Jobs
by The Associated Press
October 30, 2009
New job numbers from businesses, contractors, state and local governments, nonprofit groups and universities were not scheduled to be released publicly until Friday afternoon. But White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein says officials have been told the figures. [...]