Today's Ideas & Actions
February 9, 2010
BUILDING THE NEW ECONOMY
Senate, Get To Work: We Need 402,000 Jobs A Month, Starting Now
Source: Economic Policy Institute
As senators prepare to act on a jobs bill, they must remember that this is not a time for half-measures. We need more than 400,000 jobs a month over the next three years to close the gap created by the financial crisis. The House-passed jobs bill is a start. Nothing less than that will do.
» Read the latest statement from Robert Borosage.
What's the need? Use this fact sheet »
TAKE ACTION
If you or someone you know is unemployed or underemployed, here's your chance to be heard. Tell Congress, "I Need A Real Job. And A Real Jobs Bill."
» Use these facts to help you make your case.
READ MORE
Click here to read more from: Robert Borosage, Terrance Heath, Dave Johnson, Eric Lotke, Isaiah J. Poole, Bill Scher, Robert B. Reich, and more.
ECONOMY FOR ALL
Amid the blizzard of statistics, trillion-dollar deficits, howls about impending bankruptcy, and Republican stupocrisy that surround the budget, it is worth repeating a little common sense.
Robert Borosage: "Common Sense on Budgets " | Read more »
PLUS
» Bill Scher & Terrance Heath: "Progressive Breakfast: No Budget Love "
» Isaiah J. Poole: "2011 Federal Budget: Timidity Instead Of Transformation"
EDUCATION
Worker Training: A Bridge
To The New Economy
Many of the jobs of the future will be "middle-skill" jobs that don't need a college education but will need extensive training. In "The Bridge To The New Economy: Worker Training Fills The Gap," a joint project with the National Skills Coalition, we look at the benefits to the nation and to individual states of enlarging federal workforce development programs and ensuring that all workers have access to the education and training they need to prosper. REVITALIZING DEMOCRACY
Stop Corporations From Buying Democracy
People have been wondering for years who runs our country. People or wealthy corporations? The Supreme Court has settled the debate.
Eric Lotke: "It’s Official. Corporations Rule." »
PLUS
» Dave Johnson: "Monopoly Corporatocracy Replaces Democracy," "How To End Corporate Domination Of Government — And Our Lives"
» Bill Scher: "A Constitutional Amendment For Public Campaign Financing: Now Is The Time"
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Tax Cuts HURT Small and Medium Businesses
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Quid Pro Quo: Collecting Wall Street Money For Blocking Financial Reform
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Spending Freeze Threatens Goal Of Clean Energy Economy
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Wall Street Whores
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Not Soak the Rich, Just a Little Sprinkle
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Progressive Breakfast: Is The Senate Broken?
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The Pulse
They've Already Waited Too Long
Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment." February 5, 2010.
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Imperial Blues
..."[O]ur troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended -- because the nation that I am most interested in building is our own."
—President Obama
But Afghanistan comes first?
