Our Demand: Create American Jobs

A planned $1.5 billion dollar Texas wind farm—seeking financing with U.S. stimulus money—will create only 30 permanent jobs in America, but 2,000 wind-turbine manufacturing jobs in China. We asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu to prohibit this type of use of Recovery Act funds and have called on the Obama administration to use taxpayer dollars to foster the creation of a green manufacturing sector, with good-paying jobs, here in our own country. These articles explain the issue and why it is important.


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Our Growth Is Outsourced, Like Our Jobs

By Dave Johnson
August 11, 2010

In the news today, a familiar story: imports increased, exports declined. About $50 billion in one month alone. The trade gap isn't just costing jobs, it's a significant factor in the slow recovery as well. See below. more »

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President Obama, Make Congress Stay In DC Until They Pass Jobs Legislation

By Dave Johnson
July 20, 2010

The Constitution of the United States, Article II, Section 3: "He may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them..." more »

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If You Feed Them They Breed -- And Other Dehumanizing Conservative Idiocy We Should Ignore

By Dave Johnson
July 6, 2010

The country is in an economic emergency. Unemployment -- especially long-term unemployment -- is at extremely high levels and the recovery is faltering. Conservatives are obstructing efforts to solve this because they believe it helps them in the November election. more »

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Conservatives Call For Massive Deficits To Create JOBS

By Dave Johnson
June 10, 2010

Saying that the Obama "stimulus" was not big enough, conservatives are demanding that the government massively increase deficit spending to create badly-needed jobs. Newt Gingrich, at the conservative media outlet Human Events, calls for an Economic Freedom Act that includes, more »

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Liveblogging AFN Press Conference On JOBS

By Dave Johnson
June 8, 2010

Bob Borosage introduced Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, who said, "Saving and creating jobs is the path to reducing the deficit."

Progressive tradition in America means the same today as for many years. It is the promise of a society built on what unites us not divides us. more »

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Hell No! We Won't Send Our Tax Dollars to China

By Leo Gerard
November 9, 2009

Taking candy from a baby: A consortium of Chinese and American companies goes to Washington and announces plans to build a $1.5 billion windmill farm in West Texas using $450 million in U.S. stimulus funds, which will create 2,330 jobs - 2,000 of them in China.

The baby -- Washington -- doesn't cry or whine or spit in the consortium's face. That's what's really wrong with this story.

So accustomed to being bought and sold, Washington simply begins processing forms so it can hand over your tax dollars to create jobs in a turbine factory in the city of Shenyang, China at a subsidy of $193,133 each.

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Message To Energy Department: U.S. Greenbacks For U.S. Green Jobs

By Isaiah J. Poole
November 6, 2009

News of the potential use of U.S. more »

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U.S. Stimulus Helping Chinese, Spanish Wind Energy Industries

By Natasha Chart
November 3, 2009

Wind energy is supposed to be able to create thousands of manufacturing jobs, but unfortunately the early wind energy manufacturing jobs financed by U.S. more »

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Blowing in the Wind: Aggressive Steps Needed for Clean Energy Manufacturing

By Steven Capozzola
November 2, 2009

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal trumpeted the news that a Chinese firm will be the exclusive supplier to one of the largest wind-farm developments in the U.S. and that the developer of the project would be seeking U.S. taxpayer assistance. more »

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