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5/15/13 – Ronald Lazof
The April unemployment report wasn't anywhere near as impressive as Washington claims. [read more]
5/3/13 – Bernie Marcus
The April Jobs Report is not enough job growth and proves this recovery is just inching forward. [read more]
4/22/13 – Michael R. Caputo
A flow chart produced by the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress shows the hopelessly complex bureaucracy of ObamaCare. [read more]
4/5/13 – Robert Luddy
JCA CEO Leader Robert Luddy of CaptiveAire Systems, Inc., says the March jobless report shows Carteresque malaise. [read more]
3/24/13 – Kathy Hoekstra
CVS's new health plan requires more personal information or its employees pay more. But is CVS telling its workers the truth? [read more]
3/20/13 – Michael Caputo
Massachusetts already has universal health care, so the state asked for a waiver. Recently finalized federal regulations killed that idea and now even the Boston Globe is crying foul. [read more]
3/16/13 – Michael Caputo
USA Today recently wrote about a Maryland company that will self insure its employees, effectively opting out of Obamacare. But this wasn't so typical - the company only has 60 employees - and the trend threatens health care reform. [read more]
3/15/13 – Michael Caputo
When small businessman Mike Ruffer was attacked for speaking out about national health care reform, JCA jumped to his defense. But he's not the first... and it has just begun. [read more]
3/12/13 – Michael Caputo
The CEO leaders of Job Creators Alliance today announced their strong support of a restaurant franchisee whose health care comments landed him in the national spotlight. The small business group also identified a troubling pattern of orchestrated campaigns to silence small business complaints about Obamacare. [read more]
3/8/13 – Robert Luddy
Bob Luddy, Founder and President of CaptiveAire Systems, Inc., and Job Creators Alliance leader, issued the following statement in response to today's jobs report. [read more]
2/12/13 – Trey Garrison
As President Obama prepares for his fifth State of the Union address, speculation is underway about which policies and priorities he will highlight this year. Weekend predictions suggest we?re in for a presidential pivot towards job creation, with odds favoring mentions of immigration, education and public investment in roads and research. This theme comes as no surprise given the current state of the economy. The most recent Jobs Day Cheat Sheet by Hamilton Place Strategies shows that another 3.2 million jobs need to be created to return to our pre-recession peak. [read more]
2/11/13 – Forbes
Remember when government was a friend to small business ? the leading source of new jobs in the U.S.? Me neither. And now it?s getting worse. [read more]
2/7/13 – USA Today
Citizens are right to complain about high taxes. It hurts job creators and the little guy. [read more]
2/6/13 – Trey Garrison
The annual deficit for FY2013 will come in at $845 billion, the first time in five years that it's been less than the 13-figure mark. However, that depends on keeping the law at the status quo -- including the sequester. [read more]
2/4/13 – Trey Garrison
The January numbers bode ill for the start of 2013. [read more]
1/29/13 – Trey Garrison
In the survey of 600 small business owners, 60 percent said that the Presidents' health care program will negatively impact their small business this year. And ObamaCare isn't the only policy that is being highlighted as having a negative impact on the ability of small businesses (those with fewer than 100 employees) ability to grow and hire. [read more]
1/28/13 – John Kane
Obama's inaugural silence on job creation was deafening. [read more]
1/25/13 – Trey Garrison
The end of February will mark four years since President Obama embarked on the long controversial journey to health care reform, resulting in what we now know as ObamaCare. [read more]
1/23/13 – Trey Garrison
House Speaker John Boehner reaffirmed the commitment at the Republican conference meeting Tuesday, telling members that House Budget Chairman Paul D. Ryan's "goal is to advance a budget that balances within a decade. [read more]
1/22/13 – Trey Garrison
Tomorrow, January 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM, members of the Job Creators Alliance will hold a panel discussion on the impact of DC policies on small businesses and the results of the latest Job Creators Alliance Poll [read more]
1/21/13 – Trey Garrison
JCA leader and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey sat down with the Huffington Post to talk about how capitalism is a force for good in the world. [read more]
1/17/13 – Trey Garrison
Business leaders say they need stability in addition to tax relief and regulatory reform for an environmemt that allows for job creation. An official federal budget would help provide the stability. [read more]
1/16/13 – Trey Garrison
JCA leader and The CEO of Whole Foods Market said President Obama's healthcare law is more like "fascism" than "socialism." [read more]
12/19/12 – Trey Garrison
Majority still see America as land of opportunity, not a welfare state. In a post-election poll, 52% of Americans still self-identify themselves as fiscally conservative versus only 17% who say they are fiscally liberal. [read more]
12/18/12 – Trey Garrison
If you want to see why American politics are so dysfunctional, just take a look at American voters. In a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, there is a broad consensus that Barack Obama and Republicans should reach a compromise to fix the fiscal cliff. Only a third believe that Obama has a mandate to insist on his own policies as an exclusive response to the crisis. And, oh, by the way ... spending cuts are unacceptable. [read more]
12/17/12 – Trey Garrison
Never in the history of the world has there been less hunger, less disease and more prosperity. [read more]
12/16/12 – Trey Garrison
Founder says law violates his freedom of religion. [read more]
12/13/12 – Trey Garrison
The push for right-to-work legislation is growing after the success in Michigan. [read more]
12/5/12 – Trey Garrison
The ADP report shows stagnation level gain ahead of Friday's BLS jobs release. [read more]
11/30/12 – Ron Lazof
Businesses need a sound fiscal environment and a sense of certainty before they can commit to creating new jobs. Washington isn't offering us either. [read more]
11/28/12 – Trey Garrison
Majority of Americans now say that government shouldn't guarantee health care. [read more]
11/27/12 – Trey Garrison
This isn't the first time Buffett has made the case for higher taxes, and it's not the first time he's been wrong. Amy Payne and Alison Acosta Fraser have four reasons Warren Buffett's tax hike idea will kill job creation. Here's one. [read more]
11/16/12 – Trey Garrison
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of China and the Arab spring, American energy independence looks likely to trigger the next great geopolitical shift in the modern world. [read more]
11/1/12 – Trey Garrison
[Bono] said it had been "a humbling thing for me" to realize the importance of capitalism and entrepreneurialism in philanthropy, particularly as someone who "got into this as a righteous anger activist with all the cliches." [read more]
10/31/12 – Trey Garrison
Revisions to the way payroll data firm ADP counts private sector job creation have resulted in a sharp drop in the September employment count. ADP's new calculations put the monthly job creation at just 88,200, down from the 162,000 the firm originally reported earlier this month. [read more]
10/31/12 – John Kane
If there was ever a time that raising taxes on anyone--much less on job creators and small business owners--was a profoundly bad idea, it is now. With our anemic economic recovery sputtering along and business confidence weighed down by uncertainty, our nation's entrepreneurs need encouragement, not higher taxes. [read more]
10/30/12 – Trey Garrison
Mike White, the chairman and owner of Rite-Hite, a major Milwaukee manufacturer of industrial equipment, wanted to be sure his employees understood what he feels is at stake in the presidential election. In an email sent this week to employees, White said his workers "should understand the personal consequences to them of having our tax rates increase dramatically if President Obama is re-elected, forcing taxpayers to fund President Obama's future deficits and social programs (including Obamacare), which require bigger government." Now Mike White is under fire. [read more]
6/8/12 – Robert L. Luddy
In recent weeks, I've read news stories about how traditional colleges have adopted programs to teach liberal arts majors the skills that will make them more employable and competitive in the 21st century workplace. [read more]