Our economy is in crisis! We need to put people back to work and not just in any job, but in good jobs that will provide decent wages, benefits and working conditions. Our government is responsible for making our economy work, for coming up with solutions to the jobs crisis at the federal, state, and local level. But they’ve fallen down on the job. So we need to come up with strategies that will create jobs and get officials to act.
We hear a lot of politicians say that the private secotr needs to create jobs, but we know there are steps the government can take to reduce our high unemployment numbers. Click below to download documents for what we're doing, and what we think needs to be done, to create jobs.:
- Top Ten Job Creation Ideas
- Create a Large Scale Jobs Program
- Work Sharing
- Fight Budget Cuts to Preserve Existing Jobs
- Economic Development
- Build the Green Economy
- Retrofit Public Buildings
- Weatherization
- Create a local Jobs Program
- The Layoff Prevention Act
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24 Apr 2013
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