California, the 54th State, Creating or Saving Lots of Jobs!
According to the Recovery.gov website, California — with its 101 congressional districts — has created or saved a total of 110,185 jobs since the Obamic stimulus bill passed.
Oddly, other, less reliable sources report that “the state has lost 732,700 jobs over the last year.”
And those same other sources also seem to be under the impression [...]
About those ‘jobs saved’
Most of those “jobs saved” were government jobs.
Apparently, as STACLU aptly calls it, the Generational Theft Act simply mortgaged the future of our children and grandchildren to transfer money to the States to keep government employees from losing their jobs, while mostly ignoring the private sector (where jobs are actually created).
For the benefit of [...]
?Wrongs that We Intend to Right Today?
This evening the President signed a memorandum expanding federal benefits for the same-sex partners of Foreign Service and executive branch government employees. In his remarks before signing the memorandum, he said that this was a first step: "We’ve got more work to do to ensure that government treats all its citizens equally; to fight injustice and [...]
Transparency: Open Government Operations
How do agencies make decisions about health care reform, economic recovery, and clean energy? Who are the decision-makers? With whom do they meet and from whom do they take advice? How do they work? Openness of government operations is crucial to ensuring accountability and effectiveness.
As the Obama Administration contemplates new approaches to making government more [...]
Wrap-Up of the Open Government Brainstorming: Transparency
Last week the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) hosted the Open Government Brainstorm on behalf of the White House Open Government Initiative – the first of three phases in an unprecedented process of public engagement. The Brainstorm generated more than 1000 ideas to inform the crafting of recommendations on open government policy. Thank you to [...]
Open Government Initiative: Phase II
Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, brings us an update on the Open Government Initiative:
Last week, the White House launched an unprecedented online process for public engagement in policymaking. That process began with a week of Brainstorming, hosted by the National Academy of Public Administration.
You have shared almost 900 submissions and 33,000 votes on [...]
