‘We Basically Made Recovery Much, Much Harder Than It Has to Be’
“Centering workers in a genuine recovery, and really trying to rebuild economic security, it’s going to take movement on a bunch of fronts.”
Julie Hollar on Moving Democrats to the Right, Josh Bivens on Pandemic Unemployment
Blaming the left has been the practice of elite Democrats and their media abettors for decades.
US Jobless Rate Broke Depression-Era Record—but Most Media Missed It
Ignored by nearly all US news organizations, at least initially, was an explanation that the official unemployment rate was actually incorrect.
NYT Finds the Guy Who Wants You to Cut His Jobless Benefits
Leave it to the New York Times (10/7/11) to find a guy collecting unemployment who opposes the extension of unemployment benefits. He’s “Dan Tolleson, a researcher and writer with a Ph.D. in politics…whose last good job was working for a group that aims to replace the income tax with a national sales tax.” But don’t […]
Shallow Press Longs for Shallow President
WashingtonMonthly.com blogger Steve Benen (Political Animal, 8/12/09) has words for corporate pundits lambasting Barack Obama’s “Attention to Detail” as “going “into the weeds”: A few weeks ago, MSNBC‘s First Read had an item questioning whether President Obama “knows too much” about healthcare policy. The piece complained that the president is willing to offer Americans details […]
Bonuses vs. Starvation at the New York Times
A Tiny Revolution blogger Bernard Chazelle (8/2/09) thinks it’s possible that “people fail to appreciate how tough it is to run the government.” As evidence, he offers “two questions Treasury officials and politicians will soon have to answer”: Should a Connecticut trader receive $100 million in executive pay from a bank that would be dead […]
