The persistent weakness of the U.S. economy has left 14 million people unemployed and more than 25 million unable to find full-time work. (FoxNews) – Obama’s Jobs Plan Wouldn’t Make Huge Dent in Jobless Rate, Economists Say. Even if Congress heeds President Obama’s demands to “pass this bill right away” and enacts his jobs and [...]

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“I am going to promise to advocate the abolishment of the federal Department of Education,” said former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. (AP) – Like many Republicans, Atlanta’s Stella Lohmann — a blogger, teacher and former journalist — is fed up with mandates, funding requests, lawsuit avoidance and a one-size-fits-all approach to education and says [...]

House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid need a budget deal by Sept. 30 to avert a shutdown, which the economy doesn’t need. (CNNMoney) — In a year when lawmakers barely averted a federal shutdown and a default on its debts, Congress is poised to spread more uncertainty on an economy already [...]

All criticisms must be couched in the subjective, conditional form, so as to avoid subverting what may well be the party standard-bearer. (NYMag) – The Republican Establishment finds itself with a problem no party Establishment wants to have. It has a presidential race between a decent candidate, who could probably win the general election but [...]

The Dow Jones industrial average fell as much as 527 points, the second consecutive rout since the Federal Reserve announced a change in strategy for fighting the economic slowdown. (AP) – Stocks have closed sharply lower after investors sold stocks with abandon, convinced that the U.S. and the world are headed for a new recession. [...]

Democrats and Republicans battle over the role of government in improving the economy, both parties are seeking to influence the Fed

Obama is ineligible and committing a dangerous and unconstitutional fraud against the American people. Apparently, most of our leaders have joined in with the fraud. (Dr. Laurie Roth, PhD) – Is it that members of Congress and the Senate don

“Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal),” (WashingtonExaminer) – With both jobs and immigration likely topics of sharp debate at tonight’s Republican debate here in Florida, a new report suggests that newly-arrived immigrants have filled a majority of new jobs created in Texas, [...]

(CNBC) – The prolonged economic slump we’ve been in since before the financial crisis really is different than recent recession experiences, especially when it comes to those who now live in poverty. The official U.S. poverty rate in 2007 was 12.5 percent. Following the calamities of 2008 it climbed upward and kept climbing. By 2009, [...]

The dismal state of the US economy and out-of-control government spending affects every American