Aug 8, 2016 ... Editor's note: NPR will also be fact-checking Democratic nominee Hillary  Clinton's planned economic speech this Thursday. Donald Trump is coming off a  week of disastrous headlines and cratering poll numbers. His major economic  speech on Monday at the Detroit Economic Club, a vision described by ...
Jan 13, 2016 ... More than 14 million new jobs; the strongest two years of job growth since the ' 90s; an unemployment rate cut in half. Our auto ... President Obama and  congressional Democrats? ... The Act provided for roughly $800 billion in  government spending (most of it) and tax cuts (less) to jumpstart the economy.
Unemployment in the United States discusses the causes and measures of U.S.  unemployment and strategies for reducing it. Job creation and unemployment are  affected by factors such as economic conditions, global competition, education,  automation, and demographics. These factors can affect the number of workers, ...
Sep 15, 2003 ... As immigrants continue to make and remake the country, the United States must  develop an immigration policy for the twenty-first century. ... However, literacy  tests were vetoed by three presidents, but the veto was overridden in 1917, so  foreigners over the age of sixteen who could not read in any ...
Feb 12, 2013 ... After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million  new jobs. We buy more American cars than ... For they know that America moves  forward only when we do so together, and that the responsibility of improving this  union remains the task of us all. Our work must begin by making ...
The Democratic Congress has already taken significant steps to create jobs and jump-start the economy, resulting in the lowest tax rates in over 50 years and the creation of over 500,000 new jobs so far this year.