Miller Center Lands Big Names to Lead Panel on Entrepreneurship, Job Creation. Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution, and Carly Fiorina, former chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, are co-chairing a new University of Virginia Miller Center commission that will focus on entrepreneurship and middle-class job creation, in partnership with the Batten Institute at U.Va.’s Darden School of Business. The effort is part of the Milstein Symposium: Ideas for a New American Century, a five-year Miller Center initiative begun last year that is bringing together policymakers, business leaders, scholars and journalists to define and advance ideas and policies to help create middle-class jobs. In the symposium’s first year, separate commissions are studying job creation in three areas: entrepreneurship, manufacturing and infrastructure investment. In addition to Case and Fiorina, commission members include: The Batten Institute’s Sean D. Fiorina said, “Entrepreneurs built America and the American middle class.
For When You Have Too Much to Say. A Conversation Between Pres. Clinton and Sec. Geithner at CGI America State of the Union With Candy Crowley - Sunday, Jul 11, 2010 - mReplay LiveDash TV Transcript - Livedash - Search what is being mentioned across national TV. State of the Union: Candy Crowley's Crib Sheet for June 13. Jobless Rate Climbs to 9.5%, Deflating Recovery Hopes. American Thinker Blog: Unemployment rate down to 9.5% but few private sector jobs created.
You can stop looking at the actual unemployment number because people drift in and out of the job market depending on how discouraged they are. Keep you eyes on the number of private sector jobs created. We need to create about 150,000 a month just to keep pace with the number of Americans entering the job market. May's job creation was revised downward to just 33,000 while June's number was a little more than half of what it needs to be at 83,000. We are one year and 4 months into the Obama stimulus and the promised jobs just aren't showing up. They can brag all they want to about "jobs saved" but that is cold comfort if you've been out of work for a year and have little prospect of finding employment in the future.
And it's not just jobs that are pointing the way to a double dip recession: The week or so leading up to Friday's report offered a grim rat-a-tat-tat of statistics pointing to a slowing economy. Where are the jobs, Barry?