PinkoCommie
02-02-2010, 08:15 AM
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http://www.jobs4americanow.org/plans-for-job-creation/
1. Extend the lifeline for jobless workers. Unless Congress acts now, supplemental unemployment benefits, additional food assistance and expansion of COBRA health care benefits will expire at the end of the year. They must be extended for another 12 months to prevent working families from bankruptcy, home foreclosure and loss of health care. Extending benefits also will boost personal spending and create jobs throughout the economy.
2. Rebuild America’s schools, roads and energy systems. America still has at least $2.2 trillion in unmet infrastructure needs. We should put people to work to fix our nation’s broken-down school buildings and invest in transportation, green technology, energy efficiency and more.
3. Increase aid to state and local governments to maintain vital services. State and local governments and school districts have a $178 billion budget shortfall this year alone—while the recession creates greater need for their services. States and communities must get help to maintain critical frontline services, prevent massive job cuts and avoid deep damage to education just when our children need it most.
4. Put people to work doing work that needs to be done. If the private sector can't or won't provide the needed jobs, the government should step up to the plate, putting people who need jobs together with work that needs to be done. These should never be replacements for existing public jobs. They must pay competitive wages and should target distressed communities.
5. Put TARP funds to work for Main Street.The bank bailout helped Wall Street, not Main Street. We should put some of the billions of dollars in leftover Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to work creating jobs by enabling community banks to lend money to small- and medium-size businesses. If small businesses can get credit, they will create jobs.
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/jobs/americaneedsjobsnow.cfm
Participating national organizations
5MillionGreenJobs.org
AFL-CIO
African American Ministers In Action
AFSCME
American Rights at Work
Americans for Democratic Action, Inc.
Americans United for Change
Blue Green Alliance
Campaign for America’s Future
Center for Community Change
Center for Law and Social Policy
Change to Win
Coalition on Human Needs
Community Action Partnership
Demos
Direct Care Alliance
Economic Justice Coalition
Economic Policy Institute
Every Child Matters Education Fund
Food Research and Action Center
Half in Ten Campaign
Hispanic Federation
Inequality and the Common Good Program of the Institute for Policy Studies
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Japanese American Citizens League
Jobs with Justice
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Legal Momentum
NAACP
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
National Association for State Community Services Programs
National Association of Social Workers
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of La Raza
National Council on Aging
National Employment Law Project
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund
National Partnership for Women and Families
National Priorities Project
National Women’s Law Center
NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
ProgressNOW
Project Community, Inc.
SCLC
SEIU
Student Association for Voter Empowerment
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries
United for a Fair Economy
United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society
United Neighborhood Centers of America
United States Student Association
USAction
Wider Opportunities for Women
WiLL-Women Legislators’ Lobby
Women’s Action for New Directions
The Workforce Alliance
Working America
YouthBuild USA
http://www.jobs4americanow.org/plans-for-job-creation/
1. Extend the lifeline for jobless workers. Unless Congress acts now, supplemental unemployment benefits, additional food assistance and expansion of COBRA health care benefits will expire at the end of the year. They must be extended for another 12 months to prevent working families from bankruptcy, home foreclosure and loss of health care. Extending benefits also will boost personal spending and create jobs throughout the economy.
2. Rebuild America’s schools, roads and energy systems. America still has at least $2.2 trillion in unmet infrastructure needs. We should put people to work to fix our nation’s broken-down school buildings and invest in transportation, green technology, energy efficiency and more.
3. Increase aid to state and local governments to maintain vital services. State and local governments and school districts have a $178 billion budget shortfall this year alone—while the recession creates greater need for their services. States and communities must get help to maintain critical frontline services, prevent massive job cuts and avoid deep damage to education just when our children need it most.
4. Put people to work doing work that needs to be done. If the private sector can't or won't provide the needed jobs, the government should step up to the plate, putting people who need jobs together with work that needs to be done. These should never be replacements for existing public jobs. They must pay competitive wages and should target distressed communities.
5. Put TARP funds to work for Main Street.The bank bailout helped Wall Street, not Main Street. We should put some of the billions of dollars in leftover Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to work creating jobs by enabling community banks to lend money to small- and medium-size businesses. If small businesses can get credit, they will create jobs.
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/jobs/americaneedsjobsnow.cfm
Participating national organizations
5MillionGreenJobs.org
AFL-CIO
African American Ministers In Action
AFSCME
American Rights at Work
Americans for Democratic Action, Inc.
Americans United for Change
Blue Green Alliance
Campaign for America’s Future
Center for Community Change
Center for Law and Social Policy
Change to Win
Coalition on Human Needs
Community Action Partnership
Demos
Direct Care Alliance
Economic Justice Coalition
Economic Policy Institute
Every Child Matters Education Fund
Food Research and Action Center
Half in Ten Campaign
Hispanic Federation
Inequality and the Common Good Program of the Institute for Policy Studies
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Japanese American Citizens League
Jobs with Justice
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Legal Momentum
NAACP
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
National Association for State Community Services Programs
National Association of Social Workers
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of La Raza
National Council on Aging
National Employment Law Project
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund
National Partnership for Women and Families
National Priorities Project
National Women’s Law Center
NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
ProgressNOW
Project Community, Inc.
SCLC
SEIU
Student Association for Voter Empowerment
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries
United for a Fair Economy
United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society
United Neighborhood Centers of America
United States Student Association
USAction
Wider Opportunities for Women
WiLL-Women Legislators’ Lobby
Women’s Action for New Directions
The Workforce Alliance
Working America
YouthBuild USA