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While the President will win the vote on Unemployment Insurance, he lost the debate.

President Obama spoke in the Rose Garden today about extending unemployment insurance benefits. His attack today is part of a set piece.

Congress should extend unemployment insurance benefits for six months and reevaluate. They should pay for this by cutting future spending.

I would like to contribute to the Gulf oil spill discussion by sharing my experiences coordinating the Jones Act waivers for President Bush in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

A new claim about job creation appears to be bubbling up through the Democratic ranks.

The tax extenders bill contains provisions that would allow certain firms to further underfund their employee pensions. These provisions are irresponsible and should be removed from the bill.

Conventional wisdom says the tenure of President George W. Bush was dominated by partisanship. This conventional wisdom ignores significant bipartisan legislative accomplishments led by President Bush. If President Obama wants bipartisan legislative success, he could learn a few things from his predecessor.

The U.S. economy lost a net 85,000 jobs in December 2008. The unemployment rate held constant at 10.0%.

The President’s advisors are devoting a lot of communications effort to framing the employment picture. The “jobs battle” is likely to continue as a first-tier economic and political issue through 2010. Here is some context on the intersection among the economics, the policy, and the politics.

On the first Friday of each month the Labor Department releases the employment report for the prior month.  In the White House we used to call it Jobs Day, and it’s a fairly big deal when the economy is in transition. Today is Jobs Day.  Here are the two most important facts from the May [...]