The 12th district of central Ohio that Pat Tiberi represents in Congress has been hit harder than most by this economic recession. People are losing their jobs and new occupations to replace them aren’t available. The Columbus area is in crisis. In this environment, Paula Brooks has stepped up to challenge Patrick Tiberi for the [...]

The habit of voting along with the Republican Party has not made Brad Ellsworth a more successful member of Congress.

The hundreds of green jobs coming as a result of a high speed train project in the Connecticut River Valley contradicts claims that there hasn’t been any green job creation.

When candidates like John Hulburd discuss the economy to the exclusion of other issues, they may be speaking to the concerns of voters, but they aren’t speaking to the long-term needs of the nation.

When Glenn Thompson gets in the mood to complain about unemployment rates above ten percent, he might do better to pause, look at himself in the mirror, and ask how his own activities in Congress are contributing to the problem.

Senator Richard Burr is selling out working Americans for the sake of profits for pencil sharpener importers.

Maria Cantwell’s shoe bills encourage American companies to have shoes manufactured in foreign sweatshops instead of here in the USA. These kind of special favors for companies seeking to avoid employing Americans are particularly despicable in the current economic climate.

Some people say that the economic recession has ended, but experts warn that the economy is almost certainly not improving. Profits for big corporations are up, but ordinary Americans are still suffering from extremely high levels of unemployment. U.S. Representative Jim McDermott offered legislation this week to help. He introduced H.R. 3548, the Unemployment Compensation [...]

The Democratic Party is better than the Republican Party when it comes to protecting people’s jobs from bigoted bosses, but the Democratic Party still contains a large number of politicians who are willing to accept discrimination, so long as it’s against a minority group that cannot affect their re-election.

A coal job is a job with a dwindling future. Congressman Shimkus would better serve his constituents by supporting legislation to replace old coal jobs with new jobs that will provide the skills and opportunities to be successful in the future.