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Jesse Jackson's Cadillac SUV Stripped as He Promoted Green Jobs
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- When the Rev. Jesse Jackson led a rally for "green jobs" in Detroit, he arrived in the Motor City in a massive Cadillac SUV. But his exit from the Motor City was a lot more environmentally friendly -- thanks to some car thieves. The robbers stole the civil rights activist's rented 2009 Escalade SUV on Monday. He was in Detroit for Saturday's Jobs, Justice and Peace Rally in downtown Detroit. "We were traveling for Jobs, Justice and Peace and we came [outside the hotel] next morning and it was gone," Jackson told AOL News today in a phone interview. "It was obvious that it was ...
Opinion: How California Dreamin' Became a Nightmare
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 10) -- For most of its history, California served as a beacon for millions of Americans looking for a better place to live. The state enacted sensible policies that created one of the wealthiest and most innovative economies in human history. California fostered a huge middle class that, for the most part, owned their homes, sent their kids to public schools and found meaningful work connected to the state's amazingly diverse, innovative economy. Recently, though, the dream has been evaporating. David McNew, Getty Images People stand in line for a monthly food handout in El Centro, ...
At a N.C. Factory, Obama Touts Jobs Numbers: 'We are Beginning to Turn the Corner'
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The last time Barack Obama visited Charlotte, it was the night before the 2008 election. His mood was both somber, as he mourned the death of the grandmother who helped raise him, and optimistic about his chances in a state no Democratic presidential candidate had won since 1976. His return as president on Friday was all business. Election Day – when he claimed North Carolina by 14,000 votes – was nearly a year and a half ago. On this visit, Obama toured a manufacturing plant and talked with workers there about the economy on the same day that March jobs ...
Jobs Summit Features Execs Who Have Cut Many Jobs
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 3) -- The business leaders President Barack Obama gathered Thursday for advice on how to create jobs have themselves laid off tens of thousands of workers. Obama invited more than 130 leaders from business, labor, academia, nonprofits and local government to talk about the issue that casts a shadow over the country -- and his approval ratings. One in 10 Americans is unemployed. The economy still is shedding jobs -- and economists expect that trend will continue Friday when the government announces new figures. "I am not interested in taking a wait-and-see approach when it ...
Energy Memo: Democrats Need to Fight Smarter
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyDemocrats like to talk about green jobs and cap-and-trade. A new strategy memo says they need to ditch those phrases, play down global warming and fight back on what their plans will cost Americans if they want to prevail in the high-stakes energy debate about to erupt on Capitol Hill. ...
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