Carolyn Maloney

As we contemplate a historic vote to reform health care, I would like to emphasize how critically important this bill is to the women of this country. According to a report prepared by the Joint Economic Committee, which I chair, an…

This chart is a quick way to assess the direction things have been going in our efforts to recover from the Great Recession. While it is not success, it is definitely progress. It shows the monthly change in nonfarm payrolls over the past…

The 2010 census is here. Later this week, on March 12, 2010, forms will be hitting the mailboxes. That is why we must act quickly to ensure a fair and accurate count without disruption or confusion. Many may not realize this, but the…

Madam Speaker, as an original cosponsor of H.R. 1107 and as co-chair and cofounder of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, I rise today to celebrate the entrance of Greece into the Visa Waiver Program and to celebrate the 189th…

At a recent hearing of the Joint Economic Committee, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, testified that CBO's latest assessment of the Recovery Act found that it had increased our real GDP by as much as 3.5…

But we need to redouble our efforts to create jobs.

Thanks to the Recovery Act, the economy is growing.

Creating jobs is the top priority for Congress on both sides of the aisle and for our country.

I have introduced an employer tax credit cosponsored in the Senate by my JEC colleague, Senator Casey, and my fellow New Yorker, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

The Joint Economic Committee, which I chair, has just released a report entitled ``Understanding the Economy, State by State.'' The report provides quick and easy access to the major economic indicators for all 50 States in the areas of…

As we consider new job initiatives to create more jobs for unemployed Americans, the Joint Economic Committee will be producing a series of charts over the next few weeks to help us better understand the economic missteps that led and…

This is a map from a new report by the Government Accountability Office that I requested in my role as Chair of the Joint Economic Committee. The report provides a detailed understanding of the state of the housing market at the end of…

The Joint Economic Committee, which I chair, has just launched a nonpartisan outreach looking for new and creative ideas to accelerate job creation in our struggling economy. The JEC is looking for ideas that come from outside the bubble…

While putting Americans back to work today may require deficit spending, the dangers of inaction are even more costly.

We are trending, under the Democratic Administration, in the right direction.

But we turned a corner. Job losses have steadily fallen for the last six months.

For the first time since the recession began two years ago, the labor market has stabilized.

The President is taking job creation incredibly seriously, as is every member of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

The current Administration took office less than eleven months ago. The economy was in the midst of the worst crisis since the Great Depression.

we are determined, with President Obama, to enact comprehensive regulatory reform.

However, thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we are seeing signs of recovery.

While we have brought the economy back from the brink, we are not where we need to be yet in terms of job creation.

Despite the progress, this morning's employment report of 190,000 jobs lost and an unemployment rate of 10.2 percent is a clear indicator of the work we have left to do on behalf of our nation's families.

These long-term unemployment numbers reaffirm the need for extending unemployment benefits, which Congress has passed and the President will sign into law soon.

Today's report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on 3rd quarter gross domestic product (GDP) provides welcome evidence that the economy is moving from recession to recovery.