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Local Edge Radio – Focus on Jobs
ecthompsonmd August 29, 2012

A couple weeks ago I hosted local edge radio and I spent the whole segment talking about the fact that our government needs to focus on jobs like a laser. Our problem is not our debt. Deficit spending is not what is on the minds of the average American. The average American is wondering how to make ends meet. The average American is either out of work or knows somebody who’s out of work. This is what we need to fix. In my opinion, there’s nothing more important than fixing our job situation. There’s plenty of blame to go around. Whether

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Job numbers are good but we need better
ecthompsonmd May 6, 2011

Slowly but surely, the economy is heading in the right direction. If the economy were a patient, the patient would still be in the ICU on multiple antibiotics. Though still on a ventilator, the patient looks better and is heading in the right direction. An infusion of 244,000 new jobss is part of the prescription for getting the patient back on his/her feet. Over the last three months, private sector jobs have grown by over 700,000. This is all good news. Yet, as I have said over the previous months, it is not time to do the happy dance. It is

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How much money do these big banks owe you?
ecthompsonmd May 27, 2010

I originally posted this a couple of months ago. We still need to break up the banks and we are still owed money so, I thought I would re-post. Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the employment report showing that 162,000 jobs were added in the month of March. Republicans look for the bad in the numbers, the Democrats look for the good and the reality was somewhere in the middle. It is nice that the economy has started adding jobs. The economy has added jobs three out of the last four months, yet we’re still in a huge

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