GOP plans to add bargaining limits to budget if court doesn't act by Tuesday Wisconsin State Journal ...If the Assembly does vote on the measure again, Fitzgerald said he has little doubt it would pass again with overwhelming Republican support....
Ohio GOP Sen. Defends Budget That Favors The Rich: Wealthy ‘Suffer Along With The Rest Of Us’ ThinkProgress ... The party’s first six months in power brought collective bargaining rights, the minimum wage, the prevailing wage, and education under the knife in the name of an $8 billion state budget deficit and “shared sacrifice.”...
Automotive recovery results in job growth Detroit Free Press ... about 135,000 people were working in transportation equipment manufacturing, about 9,000 more than a year earlier...
State sends 40K layoff notices Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...About 40,000 state employees got layoff warnings on Friday as Minnesota's agency heads huddled behind closed doors to hash out plans for a possible government shutdown next month...
Gridlocking the lives of the jobless (opinion) Washington Post ...“The president has got to get this discussion more on jobs and less on the budget...”
Making Hiring Cheaper New York Times ...Congress passed a temporary job creation tax cut last year that does not seem to have been terribly effective...
