Yesterday
Today's Daily Kos front page. Not a single front page diary about jobs. Are we really ignoring jobs?
Still 25 million underemployed. Still over 3 job seekers for every job opening.
In case no one caught this in on Dec 14th. Real wages in November rose 0.5 percent due to a 0.2 percent increase in hourly wages and a 0.3 percent decrease in CPI.
BLS November 2012 Real Earnings
Credit to 51percent for Elizabeth Warrens page here.
Rebuild Now
Credit to Senator Warren for addressing jobs. No credit for worrying about reducing the national debt.
The Plan is fully paid for – and it still reduces the national debt. The Rebuild Now Plan works because it re-focuses our priorities. Instead of spending billions of dollars of tax money on oil subsidies, for example, the Rebuild Now Plan would spend that money on rebuilding our roads, bridges, and mass transit. Instead of giving special tax breaks to billionaires, for example, the Rebuild Now Plan would ask them to pay a fair share toward helping finance water and sewer repairs for our cities and towns
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, a Republican from South Pittsburg cares more about numbers in a computer than jobs.
Please include more of the good, the mediocre, and the ugly in the comments.