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Obama's Speech: Still Watching the Flight of the Conservative Arrow

By William Neil
April 14, 2011

STILL WATCHING THE FLIGHT OF THE CONSERVATIVE ARROW

April 14, 2011

Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: more »

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The Wrong Deficit

By Scott Paul
April 13, 2011

Deficit fever has swept through our capital, and President Obama has finally caught it. However, his speech is focusing on the wrong deficit. And that’s because, quite sadly, our political culture is obsessed with the wrong deficit. Yes, the American people want to put our government's fiscal house in order. But, more than anything else, the American people want jobs. more »

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The Lesson Of The 2010 Election Was Jobs, Not Cuts

By Dave Johnson
March 28, 2011

What was the lesson of the 2010 election? Since the election conservatives and the DC opinion elite have been claiming that the public voted for budget cuts. But before the election they ran ad after ad saying Dems cut your Medicare and didn't provide jobs. Now every single poll shows that the public wants jobs not cuts. more »

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Summit Launches Movement to Demand Jobs

By Elizabeth Rose
March 22, 2011

On March 10, 2011, the Campaign for America’s Future held the Summit on Jobs and America’s Future: Economists and organizers, labor and business leaders and civic reformers met to build a movement to hold leaders accountable for creating jobs.

Solutions discussed at the Summit include:

• Rebuild national infrastructure. Set up an infrastructure bank and expand public transit.
• Change the financial system to reward job creation not gambling.
• Create green energy jobs.
• Change policies to encourage companies to Make it in America – and institute currency reform.
• Support for Representative Miller and Ellison’s Local Jobs for America Act to create jobs in communities.
• Invest in education and research and development, and expand broadband access

While some of this agenda would aim at long term, sustainable job creation, Summit speakers, also called for action to quickly spur job creation in the public and private sector. more »

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Cutting Government Creates Jobs Like Cutting Taxes Increases Revenue

By Dave Johnson
March 17, 2011

A "report" from Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee says that the path to job creation is cutting ... the very things that create jobs. This is like saying that cutting taxes increases revenue. We know how that worked out, and the job-consequences of budget cuts are going to be just as disastrous. more »

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Van Jones: A Ladder To Climb

By Dave Johnson
March 11, 2011

Van Jones gave an inspirational closing talk at yesterday's the Summit On Jobs & America's Future in Washington D.C. Beginning by talking about the Tea Party movement and how that movement really points a path for progressives to feel encouraged instead of discouraged. Seriously.

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Rich Trumka At Jobs Summit: "Channel This Uprising Into A Movement" For Jobs

By Dave Johnson
March 10, 2011



• "I can’t remember when we decided to downsize our middle class. When was it we decided to downgrade our living standards? I don’t remember that!" more »

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Jobs Report -- Not Really Even Treading Water

By Dave Johnson
March 4, 2011

Robert Borosage says today's jobs report is "Treading Water." Isaiah Poole says "Treading Water—Barely." more »

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Budget Cut Job Losses Will Undo 2010 Job Growth

By Dave Johnson
March 3, 2011

While Congress and the administration -- having just passed huge tax cuts for the wealthy -- fight over which of the things government does for We, the People to cut and by how much, the rest of us are looking at how many of our jobs this will cost. Will it be a cool million, "only" 200,000, or 700,000 more of us who will lose our livelihoods? more »

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Crappy Jobs Caused By Plutocracy And Austerity

By Dave Johnson
February 28, 2011

There are good jobs and there are crappy jobs. There are burger-flipping jobs and there are skilled trades and professions. There are jobs that pay well and have benefits and jobs that don’t.

There is even the job you had, now paying less, with no benefits. more »

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