change.gov - 11/28/2008
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A New American Jobs Tax Credit: Obama and Biden will provide a new temporary tax credit to companies that add jobs here in the United States. During 2009 and 2010, existing businesses will receive a $3,000 refundable tax credit for each additional full-time employee hired. For example, if a ...
change.gov - 12/5/2008
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change.gov - 12/1/2008
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In keeping with President-elect Obama's pledge to run
the most open and transparent transition in history, the...
Obama-Biden Transition Project has voluntarily chosen to release the names of its donors on a monthly basis. As of November 15, 2008, a ...
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Philip N. Cohen: What Will Obama's "Good Jobs in America" Mean for Women?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... by 2011. It's too early to know the details of the plan, much less what will be enacted by Congress and what its overall effects will be. But early indications are the plan will do more to improve the jobs outlook for men than for women (a problem suggested to me by sociologist Paula England, an expert on ...
Obama's First Policy Retreat?
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... ) of the site that existed after Obama's election win. But when the transition website relaunched on November 8, references to a excess profits tax on the oil and gas industry were gone. ...
Obama Abandons Windfall Profits Tax on Oil Companies; Liberals Smell a Corporate Rat
Political Punch —
... -- is no longer there , having been removed in what the group called "an unceremonious and abrupt manner." The Houston Chronicle first reported ...
The Debate Over Obama's First "Broken Promise"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... , Obama's reference to a windfall profits tax, which he articulated during the campaign at a time of skyrocketing gas prices, had been removed from the transition team's Website, change.gov: ...
Links and Short Takes
Angry Bear —
... on Verizon's policy of cutting FiOS subscribers' copper loops. Modernization is an element of the Obama economic plan; both posts raise interesting issues regarding infrastructure ownership. Seems obvious to me that there's a big divergence between social and private returns for fiber to the home, and little evidence of coherent policy on infrastructure financing and/or ownership. Also: the ...
No EFCA On White House Website
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
Maybe it's too early to notice omissions from the new White House website; after all, this is its first day of existence, and President Obama has had the job for less than a long movie. Union folks worry that there's no mention of card check legislation.
In the Economy Agenda item at Change.gov, you get EFCA listed under the Economy section:
http://change.gov/agenda/economy_agenda/
On the Whitehouse.gov site, the whole section is significantly
truncated, dropping a number of issues from Employee Free Choice Act to
fair trade. ...
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