With unemployment still high and job growth anemic, finding jobs for Americans should be the top priority of our elected officials. To deal with this serious crisis, I propose the creation of a National Cooperative Administration to encourage the creation of worker-owned businesses. Basic design The NCA could provide free advice and low interest loans [...]

• The number one priority of Americans, Democrats and Independents is passing a new stimulus bill to create new jobs. The number one priority of Republicans is repealing health care.
• The number two priority of Republicans, Democrats and Independents is cutting federal spending.
• The number three priority of Americans, Democrats and Independents is repealing the health care bill.
• The number four priority of Americans, Republicans, Democrats and Independents is extending all of the Bush tax cuts.
• Americans and Independents do not track on one single issue with Republicans over Democrats.
• More Republicans want to pass a new stimulus bill to create jobs than extend all the Bush tax cuts.

According to the new CBS News/New York Times poll, 38 percent of Americans think President Obama has a clear plan for creating jobs while 53 percent think he does not. Well, I, for one, desperately wish that those 38 percent would share with the rest of the country because as far as I can see, [...]

It is very impressive that the deficit fear-mongers, led by people like Peter Peterson, David Walker and Alan Simpson, have managed to get all of Washington worked into a self-destructive frenzy over the issue of the federal debt. The debt simply is not the issue regular Americans care about right now. Americans overwhelmingly rank jobs [...]

Now that the new health care law is passed, Democrats are hoping to focus on jobs and the economy. Members of Congress and progressive organizations have begun talking more about the Local Jobs For America Act. It is a good bill that should actually help to create and save jobs while temporarily helping to ease [...]