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Edmund Andrews

• November 8 -- Bush: Moving Out of Hooverville?
From Eduardo Porter's analysis of new jobs data: "If job growth continues near this pace for the next two months, Mr. Bush will avoid becoming the first occupant of the White House since Herbert Hoover to preside over a net job loss during a four-year term." Has he told fellow reporter Edmund Andrews?

• September 24 -- Trumpeting Possible Deficits Over Definite Tax Relief
Edmund Andrews again emphasizes possible deficits over definite middle-class tax relief: "The Republican-controlled Congress easily passed legislation on Thursday that would extend expiring provisions of last year's tax cuts for families as well as about 20 business tax cuts, at a cost of about $146 billion over 10 years."

• September 23 -- Playing Up Deficits, Not Tax Relief
Edmund Andrews' front-page "Deal In Congress To Keep Tax Cuts, Widening Deficit" paints a tax-cut extension in grim terms.

• September 1 -- Pining for Clinton-Era Heaven
Edmund Andrews and Robin Toner portray the Clinton years as positively paradisiacal: "Four years ago, when the nation still seemed in an era of boundless prosperity…."

• August 24 -- Celebrating CBO's Chief for Making the Democrats' Day
The Times celebrates the CBO chief for giving Bush heartburn: "The White House tax cuts are skewed to the wealthiest. Spoken like a…Republican?"

• July 8 -- Dem Ticket Focuses on "Economic Anxiety"--As Does the Times
The gloomy tone of Edmund Andrews' "Revived Focus on Anxiety Over Economic Conditions" plays into the Kerry-Edwards theme of economic anxiety: "Other indicators suggest that Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards have ample opportunities to tap into popular discouragement and insecurity….A particularly ominous indicator for Mr. Bush is the apparently high number of people who have stopped looking for work and dropped out of the labor force."

• May 21 -- Pushing Tax Credits for Non-Taxpayers
Edmund Andrews files a report on bills to expand the child tax credit, and wonders why people making $10,500 a year "would still get nothing at all"--despite the fact they pay little or no federal taxes in the first place.

• March 26 -- A Tale of Two Tax Plans
A proposal from the Democrat candidate is a "response to widespread anxiety," while the Republican plan "would increase the nation's already swollen federal budget deficit."

• February 2 -- Still No Liberals Here
Once again, a Robert Pear story finds no liberals in Congress, only "conservatives" and Democrats.

• January 12 -- Great Minds Think Alike…
…and so do Times economics reporters Louis Uchitelle and Edmund Andrews.