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Surrogates for the Obama and Romney campaigns traded barbs over fundamental differences in economic policy and job creation on Sunday. Former Council of Economic Advisers chairman Austan Goolsbee said the Obama administration did not want a ...
May 20, 2012 at 14:36 | Source: NationalJournal.com
Republicans say they're eager for the presidential campaign to turn away from "distractions" and focus instead on the economy. Someone should warn them that if they're not careful, they might get their wish. It is true that voters' unhappiness ...
May 25, 2012 at 12:57 | Source: Columbian
That’s the message to college graduates all in the same breath from the The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington, D.C. The Institute found the wages of young graduates "fared poorly during the Great Recession and its aftermath.
May 16, 2012 at 16:00 | Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
(CBS News) In the Republican weekly address, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) blamed the president for American "dependence on government." "Instead of concentrating on job creation, President Obama has concentrated on growing government and ...
May 19, 2012 at 12:50 | Source: CBS News
The authors thus make an effort to illustrate this claim by examining a range of social, employment and economic indicators to measure the impact of the current paradigm on particular communities within both Mexico and north america. But Balakrishnan and ...
May 13, 2012 at 10:06 | Source: 1UP.COM
Other lines of research find a connection between corporate investment and political uncertainty. For instance, a study in a recent issue of the Journal of Finance finds that "during election years, firms reduce investment expenditures by an average of 4.8 ...
May 17, 2012 at 12:53 | Source: Seekingalpha.com
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is delivering a stinging indictment of President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy, calling his approach to creating jobs “as pure an antigrowth economic policy as one could imagine.” “They have been ...
May 16, 2012 at 13:08 | Source: NewsMax.com
DES MOINES, Iowa --- Mitt Romney will deliver what’s being billed as a major policy address May 15 in Des Moines on the “out-of-control spending and debt” under the Obama administration, according to Iowa U.S. Rep. Steve King. Romney, who is hitting ...
May 14, 2012 at 21:53 | Source: Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier
OTTAWA, May 25, 2012 /CNW/ - The union which represents workers in several key sectors of the Canadian economy, including seasonal workers, says the Conservative government's EI changes amount to poor economic and social policy by driving down wages and ...
May 25, 2012 at 16:32 | Source: CNW Group
BERLIN — The world leaders who urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel this past weekend to back down from her unforgiving approach to Europe’s economic problems have something in common: They don’t answer to German voters. Amid increasingly raucous ...
May 22, 2012 at 02:45 | Source: Washington Post