Another year, another reminder that the National Education Association (NEA) is a far-left organization that is grossly out of step with the views of millions of teachers and works diligently to maintain the failed status quo for children. At the union’s convention this year, labor leadership endorsed resolutions, amendments, and new business items that seem far from benefiting their members or improving education. The NEA’s new business items included: Support for the DREAM Act: “New Business Item 11. Consistent with relevant NEA documents, the NEA will continue to support the … More Read more CompleteNational Education Association Convention Fails to Benefit Teachers or Improve Education … Read entire article »

Bureaucrats have bolted a restrictor plate to our economic engine and flagged private sector job growth to the pits. The same independent government agencies, that use explicit intimidation and threats of government taking to impose “voluntary” regulations on job creators, aren’t even willing to hold themselves to the same standard. They refuse. That was the theme of yesterday’s hearing in the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Members of Congress were exploring President Obama’s Executive Order 13563 and its non-application to the independent agencies. The independent agencies have … More Read more CompleteGuest Blog: Rep. Blackburn on Why Obama Can’t Regulate His Regulators … Read entire article »

President Obama’s defenders are taking to the airwaves to rebut the charge that his actions have caused the dire employment figure we see today. The rebuttals mirror those the President is making, and they sure don’t lack in audacity. Some of the president’s enablers, for example, continue to claim that the unemployment rate is the fault of George W. Bush (even though it has been steadily rising two and a half years after Mr. Bush left office). Others say it is the structural result of deindustrialization. A third excuse making … More Read more CompleteFive Ways Obama Tanked Employment … Read entire article »

Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report revealed yet another month of disastrous economic data for the U.S. economy. Heritage’s Rea Hederman, Jr. and James Sherk write in a new report: [T]he June unemployment rate stands at 9.2 percent and that the economy created only 18,000 jobs last month. This is the second straight month in which job creation has been essentially flat. Job creation as reported by the payroll survey in the second quarter of 2011 was 101,000 as compared to 165,000 in the first quarter. Labor market recovery once … More Read more CompleteIn Pictures: June Unemployment and Obama’s Failed Stimulus … Read entire article »