http://thinkprogress.org Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:14:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://thinkprogress.org/sotu/comment-page-1/#comment-432145 Think Progress » TONIGHT: Live ThinkProgress SOTU Coverage Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:44:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/sotu/#comment-432145 [...] The Real State of Our Union • National Security • Health Care • Economy • Energy and Environment The State of Presidential Credibility A Review of Bush’s Previous State of the Union Addresses • Video and Document [...] [...] The Real State of Our Union • National Security • Health Care • Economy • Energy and Environment The State of Presidential Credibility A Review of Bush’s Previous State of the Union Addresses • Video and Document [...]

]]> http://thinkprogress.org/sotu/comment-page-1/#comment-422532 Deep Something » Blog Archive » State of The Economy Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:44:51 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/sotu/#comment-422532 [...] THE JOB DEFICIT: Job creation has been a central feature of Bush’s past State of the Union addresses. But job creation during the Bush administration has been the lowest since World War II. Even since the 2003 tax cuts, job growth has been historically weak, growing at less than half the average rate for similar periods in comparable post-war recoveries. Jobs in the manufacturing sector have been particularly hard-hit, with California losing the most. General Motors and Ford have each announced cuts of 30,000 hourly jobs. Federal spending on employment and training for dislocated workers in 2005 was just $1.5 billion, less than the amount spend on highway aid and less than was spent in 2000 ($1.6 billion), when the unemployment rate was lower. The share of workers with a pension declined from 50.3 percent in 2000 to 40.6 percent in 2004, and the share without health insurance rose from 14.2 percent in 2000 to 15.7 percent in 2004. [...] [...] THE JOB DEFICIT: Job creation has been a central feature of Bush’s past State of the Union addresses. But job creation during the Bush administration has been the lowest since World War II. Even since the 2003 tax cuts, job growth has been historically weak, growing at less than half the average rate for similar periods in comparable post-war recoveries. Jobs in the manufacturing sector have been particularly hard-hit, with California losing the most. General Motors and Ford have each announced cuts of 30,000 hourly jobs. Federal spending on employment and training for dislocated workers in 2005 was just $1.5 billion, less than the amount spend on highway aid and less than was spent in 2000 ($1.6 billion), when the unemployment rate was lower. The share of workers with a pension declined from 50.3 percent in 2000 to 40.6 percent in 2004, and the share without health insurance rose from 14.2 percent in 2000 to 15.7 percent in 2004. [...]

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