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Ron Johnson, the Republican Senate candidate who has built his campaign on opposition to federal spending and the stimulus program sought st...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel circulation must really be down, or its editors have a pathological hatred of the American Recovery and Reinv...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sank to new lows in covering economics with an inaccurate and sensationalist front page article on the Americ...

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman warns that the economy's recovery could be derailed if policy makers declare victory too soon...

Since the beginning of the Great Recession, unemployment has increased by 5.8%, the biggest increase since the Great Depression. The ranks o...

If you are looking for an economic recovery you can believe in, the October employment report is not for you. After contracting for a year a...

Global growth in real wages slowed dramatically in 2008 as a result of the economic crisis. Wages are expected to drop even further this yea...

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman writes: The good news is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a k a the Obama stimul...

Today's New York Times opines: Without another round of effective stimulus, the worst recession in modern memory will likely become — at...

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has added his voice to those calling on the Obama administration to increase its job creation eff...

The latest jobs report from the Department of Labor is a glass half full and half empty. While job loss was the smallest in the past year, t...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning that the nation lost another 539,000 jobs in April increasing the unemployment rate t...

When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics issues its February unemployment report on Friday expect more bad news. My back of the envelope ana...

The Senate's " compromise " on the federal stimulus plan is a betrayal of the nation's commitment to its people and the w...

The Action Americans Need By Barack ObamaThursday, February 5, 2009 By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic cr...

Harley Davidson's layoffs are another indicator that the economy is in a freefall . That is why most economists support the Obama admini...

Noble prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has joined the ranks of those urging that the stimulus package being developed by President-el...

Sixty-seven thousand (67,000) Chinese factories have closed and tens of thousands of workers have been laid off since the beginning of the y...

Since January, the economy has shed 1.3 million private sector jobs, over half a million in the last two months. More than ten million Ameri...