Month: March 2011

The Democrats have come up with a counteroffer: As they opened negotiations with Republicans over budget cuts, the White House and Congressional Democrats on Thursday offered to trim an additional $6.5 billion from current...

I have to compliment Catherine Rampell of the New York Times for reporting the facts straight without any he said/she said prevaricating. The economy produced more jobs last month than it has since the Census Bureau hired a...

Wisconsin has become the focus of national attention because the Governor used the budget process to try to dismantle public employee unions.  Had he not done so, and had only used the budget process to make spending cuts,...

This is not me as a reporter. This is me passing along info just received from a fantastic activist I know in Wisconsin. I haven’t stopped to check facts and figures, so don’t quote any of this as fact unless you...

I like Chris Hayes and I respect his work, but he’s wrong about why Washington DC doesn’t care about jobs. He makes good points in looking at the relatively low unemployment rate in the Washington area and among...