Please note that the Baker administration during its first term saw solar job losses of up to 3000 and that the last year has seen MA solar job growth down 11.4%. These job losses are almost certainly due to Governor Baker's refusal to … [Read more...]
Big Oil’s Big Gift
In the final actions of the year, the House and Senate passed a spending bill with a big gift for Big Oil. By permanently lifting the longstanding crude oil export ban, Congressional Republicans made sure it will be Christmas all year round … [Read more...]
Massachusetts A Model for Obama’s Clean Power Plan
As a nation, we have a choice: Do we want to keep pumping dangerous carbon pollution into the air, or do we want to pump new life into our economy, creating clean energy jobs and saving families money on their electricity bills? We know … [Read more...]
Obama Jobs Boom Continues: Businesses Create 321,000 Jobs in November
The private sector created 321,000 private sector jobs in November, making 2014 the best year for job creation since 1999. Businesses have now added 10.9 million jobs during the six-year Obama administration (though that number is partially … [Read more...]
Helping Young Adults
With the job market still weak and higher education growing more expensive, young people in Massachusetts today face some significant challenges. The Youth Empowerment programs that we fund through our state budget help young people find … [Read more...]
Mitt Romney and Autumn’s Black Swan
In nature black swans are a rarity. In the world of politics and economics they represent rare surprise events that have significant consequences. Of late the term black swan gained renewed currency when economist Nouriel Roubini said that … [Read more...]
How Jobs Are Created in the USA
This is cross-posted from my blog, Green Lifestyle Consulting, where we have started a discussion list for green bloggers to contribute political posts. I am interested in what the readers of Blue Mass Group think about this article. I … [Read more...]
Jim King Dying to Take on Scott Brown
Candidate for US Senate from MA Jim King is not in the slightest discouraged. Today on Left Ahead, he told us that he's in for the state Democratic Party convention in June, and will have the signatures and delegates to get on the primary … [Read more...]
Scott Brown’s Job (Killing) Fair
Are you a politician looking to distract constituents from your votes to kill hundreds of thousands of jobs nationwide? Don’t want your neighbors to notice your support for massive outsourcing of American jobs? If so, you’re in luck; U.S. … [Read more...]
On Holding Down The Conversational Fort, Or, Jobs, Republicans, And Hooey
As the next Congressional fight over payroll tax extensions and unemployment benefits and pipelines gets set up in the next few weeks for either its final chapter or to be kicked down the road a bit farther, one or the other, you’re going … [Read more...]
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