News on Carlos Gutierrez

Former Senate Leaders Announce Creation Of Debt Reduction Task Force

2010-01-25T11:31:37Z

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 25: (L-R) Former Commerce Secretary and former President and CEO of Kellogg USA Carlos Gutierrez, Bipartisan Policy Center President Jason Grumet, and former chief of staff to Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS) Sheila Burke, listen during a news conference to launch...

President Bush Meets With His Cabinet

2009-04-24T03:36:49Z

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 06: U.S. President George W. Bush (4th-L) meets with the members of his cabinet, (L-R) U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, U.S. Secretary of C...

Protectionist countries will suffer most from crisis: US official

2010-02-28T04:27:24Z

<div><p>Protectionist countries will be worst hit by the financial crisis wracking the world, US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez warned Thursday.</p><p>Gutierrez, who was on a visit to Brazil to meet business leaders at the American Chamber of Comm...

Huge job losses set off recession alarms

2010-03-03T23:59:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Biggest Job Loss in 5 Years Sets Off Recession Alarms; Nearly Quarter-Million Gone in 3 Months</div><div><p>It's no longer a question of recession or not. Now it's how deep and how long. Workers' pink slips stacked ever higher in March as jittery employers slashed 80,000 jobs, the most in five years, and the national unemployment rate climbed to 5.1 percent. Job losses are nearing the staggering level of a quarter-mill...

Census stumbles over high-tech counters

2010-03-04T00:46:53Z

<div id="subtitle">Glitches Force Census to Scrap High-Tech Plans for 2010 Count _ Going Back to Paper</div><div><p>Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation's 300 million people the old-fashioned way — with paper and pencil. Help wanted: 600,000 temporary workers to do the job.</p><p>Problems Force Census Bureau to Scrap Plans to Use Computers in 2010 Count</div><div><p>Technology problems will force the government to count all of the nation's 300 million residents the old-fashioned way in the 2010 census — with paper and pencil.</p&...