GOP lawmaker calls job losses under Trump ‘Biden’s economic crisis’
Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) has opposed all of President Joe Biden’s jobs legislation.
By Josh Israel - August 25, 2021Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) has opposed all of President Joe Biden’s jobs legislation.
By Josh Israel - August 25, 2021Study after study has shown the opposite.
By Josh Israel - August 23, 2021Republican lawmakers who previously had plenty to say about ‘disappointing’ job growth are silent in the wake of the July jobs report.
By Josh Israel - August 06, 2021Senate Republicans are still blocking debate on the $579 billion legislation.
By Josh Israel - July 27, 2021Glenn Youngkin continues to profit from sending U.S. jobs overseas.
By Josh Israel - July 15, 2021GOP lawmakers forecasted that the June jobs report would bring bad news. But the report far exceeded expectations.
By Emily Singer - July 02, 2021They are furious that the Keystone XL pipeline, slammed by environmentalists, is officially dead.
By Josh Israel - June 10, 2021559,000 new jobs were added last month, with unemployment claims dropping once again.
By Josh Israel - June 04, 2021Republicans are mad that people are refusing to take low-paying jobs — just not enough to raise the minimum wage.
By Josh Israel - May 10, 2021‘Before the pandemic, they were contributing to society,’ said a social worker in New York.
By Associated Press - May 05, 2021Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan has a lifetime rating of just 8% from the League of Conservation Voters.
By Josh Israel - April 26, 2021Republicans’ claim that it will cost 1 million jobs totally skips over the jobs part of the American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - April 14, 2021Unemployment claims are up, but Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims are down, indicating the economy is still on the upswing.
By Donna Provencher - April 08, 2021Their claims are full of lies and misleading half-truths about who would be impacted and how President Joe Biden’s proposal works.
By Donna Provencher - April 05, 2021Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 have broken records since Joe Biden took office.
By Emily Singer - April 02, 2021Donald Trump had long promised to ‘bring back’ American jobs and largely failed. Biden is taking a different route.
By Donna Provencher - April 01, 2021Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says, ‘the recovery is far from complete.’
By Donna Provencher - March 25, 2021The construction industry lost 61,000 jobs in the past month, and workers who are employed face one of the highest risks of dying from COVID-19.
By Donna Provencher - March 05, 2021The economy added just 49,000 jobs in January, which economists say is proof that the recovery stalling out.
By Emily Singer - February 05, 2021‘America can’t sit on the sidelines in the race for the future,’ Biden said
By Associated Press - January 25, 2021There are signs that the job market, for all its deep losses, might be set up for a fast hiring recovery.
By Associated Press - January 24, 2021David Perdue is falsely claiming Trump’s economy was the best in history before COVID. But Trump is still in charge of the economy right now.
By Josh Israel - November 02, 2020Former President Barack Obama took Trump to task over his virus response, the economy, health care, and his obsession with Twitter.
By Oliver Willis - October 27, 2020Trump’s claims of vast job creation are easily debunked.
By Amy Lieu - October 23, 2020Unemployment in Pennsylvania has doubled over Donald Trump’s first term in office, despite his promises to bring jobs back.
By Josh Israel - October 03, 2020But Trump says so a lot.
By Josh Israel - September 29, 2020Trump has not delivered on his promise to ‘get those jobs coming back’ to Ohio.
By Tana Ganeva - September 29, 2020He also claimed falsely that clean energy would destroy the state’s economy.
By Josh Israel - September 24, 2020Under the hood, the August jobs report is bad news for the economic recovery.
By Emily Singer - September 04, 2020Unemployment is above 10% in the United States, but Rand Paul is arguing for more job cuts.
By Emily Singer - August 21, 2020