Obama's Jobs Plan And The Progressive Fight To Improve It

President Obama's Labor Day proposal to accelerate some infrastructure spending is a good start. But we can do better if we fight for it. On this page we explain why we must — and how we can.


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100,000 Tell Senate Conservatives: Stop Blocking Jobless Benefits

By Isaiah J. Poole
November 17, 2010

A petition signed by more than 100,000 supporters of extending emergency unemployment benefits was sent to members of Congress earlier today, but this example of overwhelming public support has had no effect on Senate conservatives, who so far haven’t shown willingness to allow the issue to even come to a vote. more »

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As Wall Street Cheers Gridlock, We Get Stuck

By Isaiah J. Poole
October 27, 2010

Wall Street, conventional wisdom has it, likes legislative gridlock. Stock prices tend to go up when Election Day results in the two major parties splitting power. As a USA Today story recently noted, “In the words of many Wall Street analysts and economists: Gridlock is good.” more »

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Vote For Jobs

By Dave Johnson
October 25, 2010


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Right-Wing Obstruction Will Cost Thousands Their Jobs

By Isaiah J. Poole
September 22, 2010

Less than a week after the U.S. more »

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Who Will March For Patricia Reid?

By Isaiah J. Poole
September 20, 2010

What do you say to a person with a story like the one of suburban Seattle resident Patricia Reid, the unemployed 57-year-old profiled in The New York Times on Monday?

...[F]our years after losing her job she cannot, in her darkest moments, escape a nagging thought: she may never work again. more »

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Job One For Congress: Respond To The Jobs Emergency

By Isaiah J. Poole
September 14, 2010

The House of Representatives, which returns from its summer recess today, and the Senate, which returned Monday, really only has one legislative priority it should be focused on before members return to the campaign trail: Treat the jobs emergency as the emergency that it is, and enact the legislation that will get unemployed Americans back to work quickly. more »

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Obama Jobs Plan Needs Industrial Policy

By Dave Johnson
September 8, 2010

Speaking in Ohio today President Obama described his new jobs and economic programs. (Full text here.) more »

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Obama’s Infrastructure Proposal: A Step Forward

By Eric Lotke
September 7, 2010

On Labor Day, President Obama rediscovered his roots. more »

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JOBS: 'Roads, Railways and Runways' Infrastructure Proposal

By Dave Johnson
September 6, 2010

President Obama unveiled a "Roads, Railways and Runways" infrastructure proposal today in Milwaukee. more »

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New Old Unemployment Data: Screaming at Deaf Ears

By Eric Lotke
September 3, 2010

The August unemployment data are out. The unemployment rate was "about unchanged" at 9.6 percent,” says the BLS press release. Teenagers "showed little change" at 26.3 percent, as did African Americans (16.3 percent) and Hispanics (12.0 percent). more »

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