Economic Recovery Plan For The 99 Percent

Worker at Port City Castings in Muskegon Mich. USDA photo. The Progressive Caucus' "Restore the American Dream for the 99 Percent Act" includes many of the policies we have been fighting for, including direct action to put people immediately back to work on jobs that must be done to secure our economic future, and asking the wealthiest Americans to shoulder their fair share of the cost of repairing today's damaged economy. Links to our analysis and commentary are on this page.

The Progressive Potential of the Restore the American Dream for the 99% Act

current.com — Isaiah J. Poole appeared on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" December 13 to discuss the Restore the American Dream for the 99% Act, legislation designed to create 5 million jobs over the next two years.

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How To Create 5 Million Jobs In Two Years

By Isaiah J. Poole

December 14, 2011

Congress could this week enact legislation, if it chose to, that would create more than 5 million jobs in the economy over the next two years. That works out to more than 208,000 jobs a month, well above the average of 132,000 jobs a month that have been created over the last 11 months of this year. more »

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Restore the American Dream for the 99 Percent

By Terrance Heath

December 13, 2011

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Progressive Caucus Challenge: Let's Talk Serious Economic Recovery

By Isaiah J. Poole

December 13, 2011

While the rest of Congress is arguing over how to continue a payroll tax cut that will not dramatically improve the economy over the next year, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus planned to introduce legislation today that its leaders assert would create more than 4 mill more »