Jamelle Bouie

At the beginning of this month, Public Policy Polling surveyed 481 Iowa Republicans to gauge their support of the presidential hopefuls. Of that number, 480 voted for either Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul or Tim Pawlenty. As for the 481st Iowan? He was the only one who signed up to […]

In the most recent issue of Newsweek, Bill Clinton offers 14 ideas for creating jobs and reviving the economy. A few of the ideas, like corporate tax cuts (lower rates with fewer loopholes) and greater skills training, are conventional. But the rest are worth checking out. In particular, Clinton suggests a faster approval process for […]

Unlike most people, Matt Bai is bullish on erstwhile presidential candidate Jon Huntsman. The New York Times reporter joined the former Utah governor on the campaign trail and came away convinced that he’d be viable in the Republican presidential primary despite his conciliatory rhetoric and reputation for moderation. For Bai, Huntsman’s potential as a presidential […]

According to a new report from the National Federation of Independent Business, small businesses are still struggling under the weight of a poor economy: In May, the share of companies that planned to shrink their work forces was one percentage point higher than the share of companies that planned to expand them, the first time […]

In case you missed it on The Prospect‘s Twitter feed, I will be live-tweeting the entire Republican presidential debate. Follow @jbouie, and enjoy insights, wit, and cringe-worthy quotes from the GOP candidates.

This morning in Manchester, New Hampshire (the site of tonight’s second Republican presidential debate), Tim Pawlenty made his economic pitch against the Obama administration, arguing for greater tax cuts and smaller government. Slate’s Dave Weigel attended the vent and afterwards asked the former Minnesota governor about his weekend claim that tax cuts “always produce an […]

To win reelection, President Obama needs to match his 2008 performance in four swing states: Florida, Nevada, Michigan and North Carolina. Unfortunately, as Sara Murray reports for the Wall Street Journal, those are also states with levels of unemployment that rise far above the national average. And while high unemployment isn’t directly correlated to outcomes […]

Tim Pawlenty has a new campaign video out, in which he brings the Michael Bay treatment to his budget plan and attacks President Obama for the economy’s slow growth and high unemployment: It’s notable that Pawlenty doesn’t actually highlight anything substantive about his plan. Instead, he offers the usual collection of soundbites, cliches’ about socialism, […]

Bloomberg reports that the Obama administration is mulling employer-side payroll tax cuts as a form of additional stimulus. The idea, which is in preliminary stages of discussion, is among several being talked about at the White House as the economy holds center stage for the administration and Congress. The unemployment rate in May rose to […]