We Ask America has conducted a poll in Michigan gauging Michigan voters’ approval of Gov. Rick Snyder and his decision to file bankruptcy. I was especially interested in a study in Michigan, and I hope to analyze others, because I am an avid believer in an average of polls approach.
Contrary to the endless columns blaming the “model cities” initiative for the Detroit bankruptcy, in reality, secular progressives manufactured the conditions that could only have led to this bankruptcy long before the idea was ever conceived. To be sure, the “model cities” initiative accelerated and exacerbated the failures of progressivism in Detroit, and is a real-life manifestation of the failures of theoretical progressivism, but something much more fundamental and sinister has been at play for over a hundred years.
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Economist Arthur Brooks appeared on Fox Business to discuss the typical consequences of policies that have the stated goal of helping the low-income class of workers. As usual, as we have seen with Obamacare in recent weeks, the actual result is always negative, despite claims to the contrary.
The Detroit bankruptcy is the inevitable byproduct of liberalism and, if the GOP had half a brain, they would be plastering this message all over national television. Detroit filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history Thursday after steep population and tax base declines sent it plummeting toward insolvency.
The Labor Department released the June jobs report, which reports that nonfarm payrolls jumped by 195,000 in June, coming in well above expectations of 165,000. The May job increase was also revised higher by 20,000 to 195,000. The unemployment rate held steady at 7.6%, compared to economists’ expectations that it would fall to 7.5%. The labor force participation rate rose in June to 63.5% from 63.4% in May. U.S. stock-index futures extended gains on the back of the report.
The Black American Leadership Alliance has organized the DC March for Jobs protest to demand members of Congress reject amnesty, and let them know that amnesty in tantamount to selling out the black American community.
The Labor Department reports non-farm payrolls rose
The latest economic data reported by Gallup,
UPDATE: More economic news following the week ADP jobs report provides further evidence that the middle class is disappearing, leaving only wealthy jobs for a few and expansion in the industry who – I guess – should be honored that they can wait on them – that’s progressivism at work.
For millions of Americans, it does not feel like it, but the month of June marked the official end to the financial crisis induced “Great Recession.” Although the media may not have conveyed it to the American people, the National Bureau of Economic Research called an end to the recession before Barack Obama ever stepped in office, and it appeared that the economy would recover.
