News
WSJ | Private Ideas on How to Create Jobs
The Journal talked to four groups of people who analyze hiring and hire workers themselves.
Econ Comments
Politico | Politics of trade hurt job creation
The reality is that the White House messaging on trade is misleading: While the president was on his taxpayer-funded bus tour, giving lip service to job creation, he was trying to obscure the fact that he has stalled these job-creating trade agreements because of partisan political concerns.
WSJ | Obama Tries to Rewrite Narrative on Jobs
These could amount to a significant stimulus of between $300 billion and $400 billion over the coming year, which is more than 2% of gross domestic product. But he won't use the word.
CNN Money | Big Oil: To create jobs, let us drill more
With looser restrictions, the industry says it could deliver 1.4 million new jobs, boost tax rolls by $800 billion, and increase domestic energy production almost 50%.
Washington Times | RAHN: Jobs-creation lesson from the past
When government spending goes up, employment goes down.
Forbes | President Obama's Green Jobs Pretense Is An Unmitigated Fiasco
About half of the $186 million of federal weatherization funds California has spent so far produced a total of 538 full-time jobs during the last quarter.
Investors | Gov't Is Job Killer, Not Creator
After wasting three years and more than a trillion dollars of "stimulus" money, the President has announced he has a new plan for creating jobs.
Washington Times | EDITORIAL: What Obama should tell Congress - but won’t
It’s time to overrule the job-killing Clean Air Act.
Daily Caller | Want jobs? Have faith.
The answer can be found in one of my favorite parables about economic growth. I have shamelessly borrowed it from Paul Zane Pilzer.
Blogs
Political Calculations | A Slightly Better Than Zero Jobs Report
The big news headline from the latest employment situation report from Washington D.C. was that there were zero net jobs generated in the month of August 2011 in the U.S. nonfarm payroll.
Daily Capitalist | Gallup Jobs Report Belies Government Data
On the eve of the President’s big job speech, Gallup came out with more data that adds to voters’ unease about employment which is translating into negative numbers for the President and the Republicans.
Heritage Foundation | Morning Bell: Four Ways Obama Has Blocked Job Growth
During President Obama’s first 26 months in office, his Administration imposed 75 new major regulations, with reported costs to the private sector exceeding $40 billion, as The Heritage Foundation’s James Gattuso and Diane Katz document in ”Red Tape Rising: A 2011 Mid-Year Report.”
Political Calculations | California vs Texas: Jobs in the 21st Century
The real question then is just what forces are keeping California's job market from really recovering that aren't also at work in Texas (at least, to the same extent)?
