Feb. 3, 2010, 11:02 a.m.
By Greg Giroux
Roll Call Staff
Former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats (R) is set to announce Wednesday that he will challenge Sen. Evan Bayh (D), and there are already signs that he will run with the backing of influential Republicans.
Coats, who retired from the Senate in 1999 and was succeeded by Bayh, released [...]

December’s unemployment report shows the jobless rate hovering at 10 percent, which fails to reflect the number of working class citizens who have given up entirely on the job hunt.
Our government has spent only 40 percent of the federal stimulus Christmas gift — a gift from the taxpayers to the taxpayers is nothing but a [...]

Desperate for some good news on the jobs front, Pres. Obama acquiesced to business-minded scholars and acknowledged that it is the private sector that must take the lead in job creation.
He stopped just short of admitting that government meddling in free markets is what keeps the economy languishing.
At the recent White House Jobs Summit, Pres. [...]

The official jobless rate now stands at 10.2 percent as the nation lost 190,000 non-farm jobs last month. Almost 16 million Americans are now jobless. If you count those who dropped from full-time to part-time and those who simply gave up looking for work, the rate escalates to 17.5 percent.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration signs an [...]

Today, Congressman Mike Pence released a video statement urging Americans to “Let Your Voice Be Heard” in speaking out against the Pelosi health care plan — an amalgam of three different House plans — that the Speaker of the House unveiled last week.

The chart to the right, courtesy of CBS News, shows where we [...]