This Congress is continuing an Innovation Agenda in order to rekindle growth and prosperity in the U.S.
By moving quickly and taking bold actions, the Obama Administration and Congress slowed the decline and restored the economy to growth in th...
Today's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides fresh evidence that the labor market is strengthening and that we are on the pat...
We in Congress will continue working on policies that will help to create jobs so that we can continue this progress.
Although the unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent, the increase is due to re-entrants into the labor force, a sign of increased optimism ab...
This is not success, but as this chart shows we are trending, we are moving in the right direction.
These actions are working.
The Recovery Act has helped soften the blow of the recession and returned the economy to growth in the second half of 2009.
Without the swift, effective response from policymakers, the Great Recession could have been another Great Depression.
In fact, last October, Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer testified to this committee that the shocks we endured in the 'Gre...
The most recent employment report showed that 162,000 jobs were created in March, with three-fourths of those new jobs coming from the priva...