Unattractive people should be legally protected against discrimination, according to University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Hamermesh. Studies have found that employers are more likely to hire good-looking candidates and that less attractive people earn less than their more attractive peers. “Logically, I see no difference between this and…

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a voter in New Hampshire Monday that the way to make sure companies like General Electric pay more taxes is to lower their tax rate. “How are you going to tackle those values issues and the abuse that’s happening in Washington?” a voter attending…

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Mass layoffs — when employers let go of 50 or more people at once — has jumped up 3 percent this summer, according to the unemployment numbers that came out Friday. Major companies like Borders, Bank of America, Cisco, Lockheed Martin, and Goldman Sachs have all recently announced mass layoffs.…

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Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Sunday that she was “open” to implementing Sarah Palin’s suggestion that all corporate income taxes be abolished. “I propose to eliminate all federal corporate income tax,” Palin had said in a speech to the tea party in Iowa Saturday. “This is how we create…

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken some heat for reportedly planning to quadruple the size of his $12 million California beachfront mansion, but at least one supporter is touting the jobs created by the massive upgrade. “I want to tell you this,” a supporter told Romney during the opening…

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Melissa Harris-Perry, an MSNBC contributor and professor of political science at Tulane University, on Thursday night talked about how Republicans had distorted facts about taxes and their opposition to extending the payroll tax cut. “The basic economic facts here are being misrepresented by the GOP… at this point they’re literally…

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MSNBC host Ed Schultz blasted House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and his “cronies” for forcing President Barack Obama to delay his speech on jobs from Sept. 7 to Sept. 8. Schultz speculated that Republicans wanted the speech moved until the next day to give the maximum exposure to a Republican…

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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu suggested in an interview with energyNOW that the controversial Keystone XL oil-sands pipeline was likely to be approved by the U.S. State Department because of energy security concerns. The pipeline would transport 500,000 barrels of crude per day from America’s neighbor to the north all…

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said Tuesday that it’s time for the head of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to resign or be fired because he’s sending jobs to China. In a press release last week, Kucinich noted that in his role as the CEO of General Electric, Obama…

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry isn’t backing off his claim that Social Security is unconstitutional. In fact, he is now calling the program a “monstrous lie.” In his book “Fed Up!”, the Texas governor wrote that Social Security was put in place “at the expense of respect for the Constitution…

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