A Working People’s Jobs Summit
As President Obama held a jobs summit to produce ideas on how to deal with high unemployment, Working America held some jobs summits of our own, to give working people a chance to talk about what they’ve seen and experienced in this economy. The Star-Tribune reported: In Minnesota, representatives of Working America sought to keep the spotlight on workers. “This roundtable discussion is another way to remind people that …
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As President Obama prepares to convene the White House Jobs Summit today, more than 15 million Americans are unemployed. Millions more are underemployed or working at jobs with lower pay. The economy, with the help of the Administration’s Recovery Act, has been pulled back from the brink of a full-blown Depression, but the depth of structural...
Every piece of evidence that comes out bolsters the same point: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created or saved a lot of jobs and helped the economy—but much more of the same is needed. WASHINGTON — States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration’s...
Earlier I posted a summary of the jobs proposals President Obama laid out this morning at the Brookings Institution. Here are a few, still-preliminary thoughts. Since this will be the initial defining address on one of the issues that defines the economy today and will be a massive upcoming legislative debate, it’s worth looking at from a few angles...
Tomorrow and Friday I’ll be attending the A Better Deal conference, held by Demos. It’s about “securing our economic future now” and focuses on young people. It’ll be a great opportunity to follow up on the posts I wrote last month about the survey of young workers Working America and the AFL-CIO had done. I’m particularly interested...
“This year, our first priority and our second priority and our third priority are creating jobs,” Senator Al Franken told 25,000 unemployed Working America members on a tele-town hall today. With 500,000 of our members unemployed, Working America’s strong priorities are putting people back to work and making sure that, in the mean time, jobless...
Don’t forget – from 4-5pm EST today, so in just a few minutes, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will be answering the most popular questions submitted on the jobs crisis. Go here to watch , and keep an ear out for the question submitted by Working America’s David Wehde, which has been a leading vote-getter from day one. We’ll be listening...
The recently launched grassroots coalition Jobs for America Now and several of its participating organizations will sponsor a Jobs Policy Webinar from 3pm to 4pm Thursday, January 28. If you think it’s a problem that 27 million in the U.S. are unemployed or underemployed, please join us on January 28. Congress and the Obama Administration are...
If ever there was a time for a fierce urgency to confront the massive jobs crisis in America, that time is certainly now. Today the AFL-CIO, NAACP, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, National Council of La Raza and the Center for Community Change announced they will urge the White House and Congress to move forward on a new comprehensive plan...
What: EPI will co-host Spotlight on the Jobs Crisis to discuss the devastating impact of high unemployment on workers and their communities and unveil a joint statement urging President Obama and Congress to take more action to help create the millions of jobs the country needs. When: 9am to 11am, Tuesday, November 17. Who: AFL-CIO President Richard...
The campaign promoting substantial new jobs plans to address the unemployment crisis got a real boost with the formation of Jobs for America Now , a major coalition of more than fifty national organizations including Working America . In announcing this broad coalition of labor, civil rights, community and progressive policy groups, the groups noted...
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