Jobs Program

Keystone XL Opponents Need a Jobs Program

Brendan Smith | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Environment, American Jobs Act, Jobs Crisis, Green Jobs, Keystone XL Pipeline, Jobs Program, American Jobs, Labor Movement, Labor-Reform, Green News

If we fail to become the voice for both the planet and workers, our movement risks losing the support of increasing numbers of workers, unions and their political allies.

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We Need a Practical and Comprehensive Jobs Program

Steven Cohen | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Job Market, Jobs Program, Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Unemployment Rate, Green News

We are now part of a fast changing global economy that will require constant adjustments if we are to take full advantage of the talents of our people. It is not acceptable to passively acquiesce to what is starting to look like permanently high levels of unemployment.

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Big-Drama Obama

Brent Budowsky | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Triangulating, Jobs Program, Unemployment, Barack Obama, Economy, Ronald Reagan, Big-Drama Obama, Lefty Bloggers, Congressional Black Caucus, Medicare, Medicaid, Democrats, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Professional Left, Politics News

Obama is the John Barrymore of American politics. "No-drama Obama" is really "Big-drama Obama." Ronald Reagan was an actor who governed like a president. Barack Obama is a president who governs like an actor.

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My 10-Year-Old's Jobs Program

Alan Grayson | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Jobs Program, Jobs, Alan Grayson, Barack Obama, Plan, Economy, Politics News

We keep handing our money over to the rich, in the vain hope that they will give some of it back. That hasn't worked, and it won't work.

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What to Remember for the President's Jobs Plan: Stimulus Works

Jared Bernstein | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Jobs Program, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Obama Jobs Plan, Business News

The evidence shows the stimulus worked, but ended too soon, before the private sector was ready to walk on its own. The evidence shows we need to do more of these sorts of policy interventions.

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He Should Go Big! Small! Deep! Long!

Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Jobs, Jobs Program, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Obama Jobs Plan, Business News

The chatter of the day is whether the president's jobs plan should be big and ambitious or small and politically pragmatic.

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Save the Nation From Economic Collapse

Brent Budowsky | Posted 10.04.2011

The gathering storm of a recession threatens America with the danger of a lost decade of economic pain. President Obama and Congress can save the nation by reaching a new agreement to lower the deficit and create jobs by Labor Day.

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Washington vs. America

Brent Budowsky | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Taxes, Corruption, Roy Spence, Market Crash, Social Security, Selfishness, Jobs, Sense of Purpose, Joblessness, Gridlock, Surrender, Jobs Program, Self Interest, Barack Obama, Common Good, Debt Limit, Banana Republic, Principle, Capitulation, Bond Rating Downgrade, Washington, John Boehner, Stock Market, Medicare, Democratic Base, Foreclosure Aid, Wall Street, Politics News

Washington is an island drowning in its own self-interest, surrounded by a hurting and unhappy nation of deeply patriotic citizens who hunger for shared national purpose but find our politics to be sickening, insulting and corrupted.

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Repatriate American Jobs Before Foreign Profits

Brent Budowsky | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Jobs Program, Repatriate Prosperity, Unemployment, Economy, Profit Repatriation, Rebuild America, Global Business, Jobs, Job Repatriation, Exporting Jobs, Made in America, Patriotic Capitalism, Patent Reform, Tax-Repatriation Holiday, Tax Holiday, Business News

America must become again a nation of job-producing patriotic capitalists. "Made in the USA" should be a clarion call with a resounding echo heard in Washington.

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The Military as a Jobs Program: There Are More Efficient Ways to Stimulate an Economy

Ellen Brown | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Jobs Program, Economic Stimulus, Employment Crisis, Military Industrial Complex, War, Business News

The half of the budget now going to military pursuits could be better spent. If we are going to double exports in the next five years, as President Obama has pledged, we will need to divert some of the resources poured down the black hole of war to productive civilian industry.

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Jobs: An Angry Dissent

Brent Budowsky | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Jobs Program, Jobless, Unemployment, Economy, Housing Tax Credit, Politics News

Let's bring back the housing tax credit. Let's put a jobs program into budget talks. Let's promote buying American and rebuilding America. Let's not burden our children with bridges that collapse and cars that crash on roads that decay.

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AMERICA NEEDS JOBS Time For A New WPA

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Works, Jobs Program, Wpa, America Needs Jobs, 20 Jobs Ideas, Ccc, Roosevelt, Fdr, New Deal, Financial Crisis, Business News

(No. 8 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) There is, of course, a precedent for the country facing a massive, sustained unemployment cri...

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Obama's Jobs Program a Mixed Bag for Savings Accounts and Money Market Rates

Richard Barrington | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jobs Program, Obama Jobs Program, Obama Jobs, Obama Stimulus Plan, Obama Stimulus, President Obama Jobs, Healthy Living News

Growth in employment may be the key to getting money market rates and other bank rates up from near-zero levels. So what should you make of the President's latest jobs program?

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The Unemployment Benefits Stalemate: Our Broken Politics on Full Display

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs Program, Obama Unemployment, US Unemployment, Jobs Creation, Unemployment, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment Benefits Extension, Arianna Huffington, Unemployment Benefits Extension 2010, Politics News

The White House has the ultimate PR weapon -- the president's bully pulpit. But Obama seems unwilling to use it when it comes to the jobs crisis. Why isn't he doing everything possible to make it impossible for Congress not to pass the extension?

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The Jobs Deficit & The Breaking Point, Pt. 2

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

The deficit fear mongers are right: America is facing a deficit that threatens to cripple our economy and foreclose on the futures of millions of Amer...

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Congress, Get To Work: America Needs Jobs

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs Program, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Local Jobs for America, Jobless Recovery, Unemployment Rate, Black Unemployment, African American Unemployment, Jobs, Obama, Joblessness, Race, Ceta, Obama Jobs Plan, Local Jobs for America Act, Politics News

Crossposted from OurFuture.Org "I have worked all my life." It's something that's true of many Americans, whether employed or unemployed. Bu...

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Paul Krugman: It's Time For An Emergency Jobs Program

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Krugman, Deficit, Jobs Program, Unemployment, Barack Obama, Unemployment Benefits, Spending, Jobs, Financial Crisis, Obama, Unemployment Rate, Stimulus, Business News

So it's time for an emergency jobs program. How is a jobs program different from a second stimulus? It's a matter of priorities. The 2009 Obama sti...

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Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs Program, Welfare, Prison Industry, Aig, Corporate America, Nuclear Weapons, Wall Street, Bailout, New Deal, Economy, Stock Market, Franklin Roosevelt, Corporate State, Warfare State, Crash, Politics News

These times provide a crash course on the corporate state: If a company like AIG is too big to fail, the government will rescue it. Mere pe...

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