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Posts Tagged Mark Thoma

The Dangers Ahead for Obama’s Jobs Program

By | 12.09.09 | 9:29 am

President Obama announced his $150 billion job creation initiative on Tuesday, which includes everything from new spending for highway and bridge construction, to small business tax cuts, to retrofitting millions of homes to make them more energy-efficient. It’s the sort of news that probably would have gotten More…

Tent Cities of Today – And Yesterday

By | 03.10.09 | 8:54 am

Mark Thoma at Economist’s View shows us the tent cities now sprouting up in Sacramento, Calif., not far from the small town where he grew up. Those tents are homes now for people who lost their previous dwellings to foreclosures. Below the picture, you can click on an image More…