Here in snowy Davos, the topic of job creation has been about as popular as the passed canapés and free champagne. Not surprisingly, President Obama’s latest jobs proposals — a combination of taxing outsourcing corporations …
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The Unlikely Green Alternative to the Keystone Pipeline? Railroads
President Obama’s decision last week to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline that would carry oil from Canada to the U.S. was cheered by some environmental activists like Robert Redford. But many mainstream commentators reacted with …
Is U.S. Manufacturing Really Back?
Is America in the middle of a manufacturing job revival? The latest numbers would make it seem so. The U.S. has added more net manufacturing jobs since the start of 2010 than the rest of the G7 nations put together, with only two …
Employment Reality Check: 200,000 New Jobs Is a Good Start, but Good Times May Still Be a Decade Away
Companies are hiring again. That’s the good news. The bad news is those hires might not be coming fast enough.
In December, corporate America added 200,000 employees to their payrolls. That hit the magic number economists have …