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Balance Trade—Make Jobs

Summary Our present severe recession, though officially over, lends urgency to tackling U.S. trade issues. Without the announcement effect of a trade bill, manufacturers will continue to shutter factories and move production overseas. President Obama’s goal of...

Philly Mayor Warns Washington Dont Cut The Recovery

Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has declared this week "jobs week" in his city, and he has been using it as an opportunity to announce a series...

Obama’s Half Measures Won’t Save the States

Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Much could be done to help state budgets and reduce unemployment. None of them will happen. Business Week reports that President Obama is...

Why We Need A Jobs Summit

To break the inside-the-Beltway consensus that a robust, government-led effort to lower the unemployment rate this year should not be on the table for legislative debate, the Campaign for America's Future this week announced that it is convening a "Summit on Jobs and...

The Forgotten 99ers -- Abandoned By Their Country

I was looking for news reports about the "99ers" -- people unemployed for 99 weeks or more, and therefore unable to receive any unemployment benefits -- and noticed that almost no one is covering this. Mostly Examiner.com, MLive, "From the Trenches" and "RantRave."...

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