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Video: Christina Romer explains a new report about job creation
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Christina Romer, the Chair-designate for the Council of Economic Advisers, discusses a new report about what kinds of jobs and which types of workers will benefit from the proposed American Recovery Act.
Learn more about the three to four million new jobs that could be created by reading the report written by Romer and Jared Bernstein, the chief economist for the Office of the Vice President-elect. And watch the interview with Romer here: ...
Romer on Stimulus
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Christina Romer talks about the Obama stimulus plan on YouTube. I think this kind of commitment to the use of new media will ultimately prove very powerful.
Christina Romer Explains Stimulus Plan
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Christina Romer, the Chair-designate for the Council of Economic Advisers talks about the stimulus plan ...
Election Central Sunday Roundup
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Obama Economic Adviser Promotes Stimulus Plan On YouTube
The Obama transition team has posted this new YouTube video featuring Christina Romer, who will be Obama's chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, to promote Obama's stimulus plan:
Back in 2007 and 2008, the Obama campaign was noted for the ways it used the Internet to reach out to voters and spread its message. Now that he's won the election, the incoming Obama Administration is still using the new medium to push its policies.
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Obama Makes His Case For Stimulus Plan (VIDEO)
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This morning Barack Obama released his economic team's official evaluation of their stimulus plan, making their case for why such a large stimulus is urgently needed to right the economy. Christine Romero, the chair-designate for Obama's National Economic Council, discusses the report in the video below.
Paul Krugman applauds the Obama team for their "clear, honest assessment" of the stimulus plan, but remains unconvinced that its scope is large enough to deal with the current crisis:
Here's one way to look at it: [Romer and Bernstein] show the effects of the plan rapidly fading out ...
Obama Makes His Case For Stimulus Plan (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
This morning Barack Obama released his economic team's official evaluation of their stimulus plan, making their case for why such a large stimulus is urgently needed to right the economy. Christine Romero, the chair-designate for Obama's National Economic Council, discusses the report in the video below.
Paul Krugman applauds the Obama team for their "clear, honest assessment" of the stimulus plan, but remains unconvinced that its scope is large enough to deal with the current crisis:
Here's one way to look at it: [Romer and Bernstein] show the effects of the plan rapidly fading out ...
Obama Adviser: Stimulus Won't Be Sexist, Not Just Help For "Burly Men"
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The Obama transition team put out a video on Sunday detailing the job creation components of their proposed stimulus legislation.
Putting aside, for a moment, the novelty of having the Chair-designate for the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, using YouTube to discuss the contours of a potentially $1 trillion stimulus, you get a sense of the kind of political pressures facing Obama's economic gurus.
Romer, during the nine-minute long clip, recounts how shortly after her appointment was announced, she received an email from a women's group expressing concern that any stimulus effort would disproportionately aid "burly men."
"That's ...
Obama Adviser: Stimulus Won't Be Sexist, Not Just Help For "Burly Men"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
The Obama transition team put out a video on Sunday detailing the job creation components of their proposed stimulus legislation.
Putting aside, for a moment, the novelty of having the Chair-designate for the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, using YouTube to discuss the contours of a potentially $1 trillion stimulus, you get a sense of the kind of political pressures facing Obama's economic gurus.
Romer, during the nine-minute long clip, recounts how shortly after her appointment was announced, she received an email from a women's group expressing concern that any stimulus effort would disproportionately aid "burly men."
"That's ...
Christina Romer: The Obama Plan
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Hullabaloo — Q&A With Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney by digby When my fellow Californian Joan Walsh threw out Carolyn Maloney's name as a possible successor to Hillary Clinton I had, coincidentally, just finished Maloney's book and I wrote a post saying I thought she would be an excellent choice for senator. Her book was a bit of a tonic to me (at least to the extent that it ruefully validated my impressions during the previous year that women were not nearly as far along as I'd thought they were.) After I wrote the post, I asked if she could spare a few minutes to answer a couple of questions about that and other things and much to my delight, she ...
