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Think Government Job Losses Don't Hurt Us? Think Again
Conservative media figures have mocked President Obama's concerns about continuing job losses in the public sector but experts say the job cuts are more severe than in other recoveries in recent decades and threaten the recovering economy. Conservative Media Mock Concerns About Public-Sector Job Loss
Bill Kristol: Obama Thinks "The Problem With The Economy Is That The Government Isn't Big Enough.
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Obama focuses on middle-class concerns in weekly address
Coming off a week of media-fed outrage over several "scandals" (IRS, Benghazi, AP), President Obama focused this morning's weekly address back on jobs, progress and the middle class—just as he did when he spoke yesterday in Baltimor... Read Post
Conservative Media Dismiss Government Worker Layoffs To Argue Public Sector Is Fine
Conservative media are downplaying the severity of public sector job cuts by trumpeting data showing that the unemployment rate among government workers in May was 4.2 percent. But that statistic doesn't change the fact that public ... Read Post
Government Job Losses Still Plaguing Economic Recovery As More Furloughs, Cuts Loom
For all the talk among conservatives about the “bloated” size of government, public sector job losses have plagued America’s economic recovery from the Great Recession. And with the automatic budget cuts that took effect on March 1 ... Read Post