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Pelosi Says Demand Creates Jobs At Speakout For Good Jobs Event
"The way to create jobs is by paying a living wage to workers, That creates demand. Republicans say jobs from tax cuts for rich people." These were some of the remarks by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi at a Speakout For Good Jobs Tour I attended last night. See the...
Big Ideas To Get America Working Rebuild Our Infrastructure
In the midst of the July heat wave, some Oklahoma City commuters got a nasty surprise as they drove down Interstate 44 one morning: an expansion joint on a 36-year-old bridge buckled. Several vehicles were damaged as they drove across the broken joint before repair...
Todays Big Idea To Get America Working Invest In Public Education
I don't think anyone has ever even tried to make the argument that education and jobs are not in any way linked. But the economic argument for education is not well understood even by those -- politicians especially -- who are most apt to make the connection. So...
Todays Big Idea To Get America Working Make Work Pay
Significant job growth continues to elude the American workforce, as companies hold back from expanding and rehiring in the face of weak demand for their goods and services. In a Wall Street Journal article last month, “Dearth of Demand Seen Behind Weak Hiring,” CEOs...
Nurses to Obama Heal America Tax Wall Street
Janesville, WI -- As President Obama gets ready for his big jobs speech Thursday, America's nurses have a message for him. "Heal America, Tax Wall Street!" the signs read as nurses rallied in front of 61 Congressional offices recently. The nurses are proposing a bold...
Supporting The Scrap The Cap Bill Helps Save Social Security
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., today introduced a bill that, if passed by Congress and signed by the president, would insure Social Security's solvency for the next 75 years—without having to cut a single person's benefit. Sanders' solution is simple: gradually eliminate...
Bold JOBS Plan 1 Hire For Energy Retrofitting
Last week, in Jobs: It's BOLD PLAN Time, I listed three badly-needed plans for creating jobs: * A 5-year plan to revive American manufacturing. This is how our country and our people can make a living again. * A 5-year plan to bring America's infrastructure into the...
Obama’s Infrastructure Proposal A Step Forward
On Labor Day, President Obama rediscovered his roots. He traveled to the LaborFest rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and proposed $50 billion in infrastructure spending to “create jobs” and “make our economy hum over the long haul.” Everything was on target — from the...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/15/2011
MORNING MESSAGE: Scrap The Cap OurFuture.org's Isaiah Poole: "Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced a bill that, if passed by Congress and signed by the president, would insure Social Security's solvency for the next 75 years—without having to cut a single person's...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Scrap The Cap OurFuture.org's Isaiah Poole: "Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced a bill that, if passed by Congress and signed by the president, would insure Social Security's solvency for the next 75 years—without having to cut a single person's...
