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From our White House Photo Blog:

Obama’s WPA

In his radio address today Obama outlined an ambitious plan to get the economy back on track. The plan has five points:   1. Embark on a large-scale effort to make public buildings more energy-efficient; 2. Make the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since President Eisenhower established the Interstate Highway System in the [...]

A Big 3 Band-Aid

Late yesterday congressional negotiators reached a compromise on what to do with the Big Three, at least in the short term. With the Bush Administration refusing to deal and the Senate Republicans adamant that the tarp money not be touched, Dems had little choice but to take money from the DOE’s $25 billion modernization fund. [...]

Is This A Depression?

Robert Reich thinks we are headed in that direction. Justin Fox is not so sure. All I know is,  it sure feels scary.