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Louisville news: Kentucky to get 10 new jobs in dynamic beef-jerky industry edition [News]
- "Governor Steve Beshear today announced Mingua Beef Jerky Inc., a family-owned manufacturer of assorted flavors of beef jerky, will expand into a new 30,000-square-foot building in the Paris/Bourbon County Industrial Park.
What McConnell WILL tell you about unemployment [The Arena]
Here in The Arena, we like to give our readers a chance to hear both sides of public policy issues. Brother Keith Rouda just finished giving us an interesting series of articles about “What McConnell won’t tell you about unemployment,” in which he attempts to put a bit of lipstick on President Obama’s pig of an economy. With detailed charts and some snarky hyperbole, Rouda characterizes Senator Mitch McConnell’s “…utter lack of concern for the unemployed,” and opines that “Their suffering does not keep Senator McConnell awak
What McConnell won't tell you about unemployment: Part 3 - Government does create jobs [The Arena]
Mitch McConnell talks about the lack of improvement in unemployment as if he had no role in it. But the reality is that despite his claims that uncertainty and regulation are preventing employers from hiring, the private sector has, slowly, started hiring. It is the collapse of local government that has kept the unemployment rate up.
What McConnell won't tell you about unemployment: Part 2 - Who's unemployed [The Arena]
One thing that needs to be noted, and which makes it easier to understand McConnell's utter lack of concern for the unemployed, is that unemployment has not been distributed equally throughout the economy. The unemployed didn't vote Republican even before they were unemployed.
What McConnell won't tell you about unemployment: Part 1 - The numbers [The Arena]
Mitch McConnell said this week that America has lost 1.5 million jobs since the first stimulus bill was passed. That is not true.
A little over a month ago, this nation began a long overdue discussion about jobs and the crisis of unemployment for the first time in over two years. But since we have to have this discussion with people with no aversion to just making stuff up, we would be wise to bone up. Some stuff has changed in the last two and a half years.
Lets start with how many people are working now compared to when President Obama was inaugurated.
Louisville.com: Gov. Beshear lied about job creation figures edition [News]
- "Gov. Steve Beshear frequently credits himself with creating or retaining more than 19,500 Kentucky jobs, but some of those jobs don’t exist.
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! [The Arena]
Thousands of Americans will rally for jobs in some 150 American cities Wednesday, including Louisville, imploring lawmakers to focus on jobs, not cuts. The timing could not be more critical.
Update: Courier-Journal lays off 50 employees [News]
Sources are telling Louisville.com that 36 employees have been laid off at the Louisville Courier Journal, in what seems to be a nationwide two percent staff reduction by the Courier's parent company Gannett.
Sources tell Louisville.com that some of the cuts are coming from the the weekly Velocity publication and Neighborhoods section. At this point, our sources have told us that among those laid off were:
Mayor Fischer says Museum Plaza isn't dead [News]
On a WFPL news special, Louisville's Mayor Greg Fischer took questions from listeners on all things Louisville.
I called in to ask him about the Museum Plaza project.
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