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Yesterday, We Needed a Bold New Jobs Plan
ecthompsonmd September 2, 2011

Today’s jobs report was just as mediocre as I thought I was going to be. The Verizon worker strike sucked out 45,000 jobs from this report. The private sector added 17,000 jobs. The combination of this would’ve meant 62,000 jobs were created in August. (The Verizon strike is over.) These jobs will be added back into the September labor report. The bottom line is that the unemployment rate of 9.1% is unchanged. We have to do better. We must do better. We can’t have chronic long-term unemployment in a large section of our population. Prolonged unemployment sucks the life out of

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Bailout Fails in House
ecthompsonmd September 29, 2008

Now the finger pointing has started. The bottom line is that it didn’t matter what Nancy Pelosi said earlier this morning. The Republicans in the House don’t care about this bill. Period. They don’t want a bailout. The Dow was down 777 points at closing. So, what do House Republicans have to say to the American people now? Better to go down with the ship? Senator John McCain and his advisers were bragging over the weekend about how he’d brought everyone together. He was the one that forged a deal. Now what does he have to say? I find it interesting

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