by MCDC | Mar 6, 2015 | Economy, Employment, News, Video
The U.S. economy added 295,000 jobs in February, which crushed expectations. That beat the estimate from CNNMoney’s survey of economists, who predicted 235,000 job gains. February’s job growth shows how far the economy has come in a year. It’s the...
by MCDC | Jan 20, 2015 | Economy, Education, Employment, Events, Issues, News, Video, Virginia
In our growing global economy, Americans need to have more knowledge and more skills to compete — by 2020, an estimated 35 percent of job openings will require at least a bachelor’s degree, and 30 percent will require some college or an associate’s...
by MCDC | Jan 13, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Economy, Employment, Health Care, Income Inequality, News
Why do half of his state’s residents want to leave? Strip away his antics, and there’s a devastating economic story By Robert Hennelly Late last year a Monmouth University/ Asbury Park Press poll found that half of the New Jersey residents surveyed wanted...
by MCDC | Dec 18, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Energy, Issues, News
Excerpts from an article by Steve Benen Remember the 2012 presidential campaign? It was just two years ago that Mitt Romney boasted that if he were elected president, he’d “get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, perhaps a little lower” by the end of his first...
