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How The Climate Change Bill Can Help Save 4 Million Jobs

By Isaiah J. Poole
October 2, 2009

Taken out of context, this argument sounds almost like a right-wing or corporatist knock against the climate change bill that's pending in the Senate: The bill that was introduced this week by Sens. more »

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Climate Change Legislation Must Stimulate Demand, Be Tough On Pollution

By Natasha Chart
October 2, 2009

Consider these three worrying things: First, there's some risk that putting the wrong type of price signal solely on domestic pollution may transfer both jobs and pollution overseas, while increasing pollution. more »

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Kansas Senator Speaks Plane Truth About Aviation Manufacturing in the U.S.

By Kerri Toloczko
From manufacturethis.org
October 1st, 2009

manufacturethis.org — American contracts mean American jobs. An American contract for new airborne refueling tankers means American jobs.

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Industries Employing 4.1 Million Workers at Risk Under Climate Bill

From americanmanufacturing.org
October 1st, 2009

americanmanufacturing.org — Industries employing more than 4 million workers could be at risk nationwide under climate change legislation now pending in the Senate unless lawmakers adopt and strengthen key provisions contained in the House version of the bill.

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A New Economy from Old Roots?

By Dave Johnson
September 30, 2009

How do we build a new economy out of the collapse of the old economy? How do we start fresh to begin creating jobs again, while building in economic and environmental sustainability, as well as workplaces that respect human needs and rights? more »

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Poll: Creating New Jobs Trumps Fixing Deficit

By James Parks
September 30, 2009

With unemployment at the highest rate in 26 years, most Americans want the government to create more jobs before it worries about the deficit.

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Union Chief Pushes Tough Line on Trade

From washingtonpost.com
September 30th, 2009

washingtonpost.com — As visitors to this week's G-20 summit in Pittsburgh are frequently reminded, the host city has bounced back from the collapse of its steel industry in the 1980s.

But for the city's preeminent union, the United Steelworkers, the arguments that began here decades ago over the threat of foreign trade are far from settled.

On Friday, the United Steelworkers weighed whether to join a trade case accusing China of dumping seamless steel tubes in the United States. Earlier this week, it launched a lawsuit with three U.S. manufacturers against Chinese imports of coated paper. These actions closely followed two trade victories the union garnered earlier this month with a tariff on Chinese tires and a favorable decision on other steel products.

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New Stimulus Needed Before Recovery Stalls

By Roger Bybee
From inthesetimes.com
September 30th, 2009

inthesetimes.com — The need for a second economic stimulus focused directly on job creation could not be more urgent right now.

"If you stop right now, [the economy] will slide right back" into a recession, declared new AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka at a "shadow summit" held by international labor leaders that coincided with last week's G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh.

"The labor leaders don't want the G-20 leaders to formulate "an exit strategy (from the recession) without good jobs at the heart," Sharan Burrow, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said during a news conference. Without an employment strategy, a G-20 declaration will be rejected by labor, Burrow said.

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Favoring Bankers over Boilermakers?

By Les Leopold
From huffingtonpost.com
September 30th, 2009

huffingtonpost.com — Sure, we don't like the fact that Wall Street's fantasy finance casino crashed the economy, but even that has a positive environmental angle. The collapse has slowed down the world economy, slowed down production and transportation, and therefore has slowed down the output of carbon. And besides, the manufacturing sector accounts for fewer and fewer jobs each year, so why should we give a damn about it? Because no society can endure for long if it fails to create decent jobs for all its people.

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Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision?

By Robert Borosage
September 30, 2009

"Vandalism" screams the cover of The Economist, depicting President Obama leaving an ice pick in the tire of free trade. (No racial overtones there; after all, as the president explained, he was black before he was elected.)

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