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READ AND DISCUSS
$raquo; ROBERT BOROSAGE: [2] Recovery requires fundamental reform of America's economic strategy. The old shibboleths of the conservative era must be discarded, like yesterday's rotted fruit.
Conference Tackles New Jobs Agenda [3]
[3]Elected officials and leaders from labor, business and academia are at our Washington conference outlining the industrial and trade policies we need to ensure a broad prosperity based on good American jobs.
» Listen live and follow tweets [3] (#newecon) on the conference main page
» Liveblogging the conference on our Building The New Economy forum [1]
and our blog [4].
SPECIAL REPORT
Building The New Economy: Where We’re Going. How We’ll Get There. [5] This report makes the case for and outlines the key elements of a new industrial policy.
Read the report » [5]
ONLINE FORUM
Leaders in labor, business, academia and progressive activism offer perspectives on what we must do to reshape the economy.
Read posts from U.S. Steel CEO JOHN SURMA [6], AFL-CIO President RICHARD TRUMKA [7], United Steelworkers Union president
LEO GERARD [8], ROBERT BOROSAGE [9] and others.
Read the discussion on our online forum page [1].
We need policies that will ensure American workers get good jobs in the new economy. The old prescriptions won't work, but entrenched interests aren't letting go easily. Participate in our online forum, where we explore new progressive industrial, trade and public investment policies in advance of our "Making It In America: Building the New Economy" conference [3] in Washington October 29, 2009.
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Links:
[1] http://ourfuture.org/features/2009104321/building-new-economy
[2] http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009104320/where-will-jobs-come
[3] http://www.ourfuture.org/buildingtheneweconomy
[4] http://www.ourfuture.org/blog
[5] http://www.ourfuture.org/report/2009104428/making-it-america-building-new-economy
[6] http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009104428/case-study-global-imbalances
[7] http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009104428/it-matters-where-things-are-made
[8] http://ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009104427/foment-green-industrial-revolution
[9] http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009104427/new-red-ink-scare
[10] http://www.ourfuture.org/features/2009104321/building-new-economy#bloggers
[11] http://apolloalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/greenmap_proposal031109.pdf
[12] http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/09/clean_energy_investment.html
[13] http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/business_opinion/57580282.html
[14] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100602837.html
[15] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090601194.html
[16] http://www.haroldmeyerson.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=146:just-one-word-factories&catid=39:washington-post&Itemid=87
[17] http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_612352.html
[18] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/enforcing-the-rule-of-tra_b_299908.html
[19] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/fomenting-a-green-industr_b_275701.html
[20] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-paul/american-protectionism-is_b_242291.html
[21] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-paul/american-manufacturing-do_b_184864.html
[22] http://www.rollcall.com/features/Energy-Environment_2009/energy_environment/34038-1.html
[23] http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24123
[24] http://cleantech.com/news/4713/pennsylvania-quadruple-solar-capaci
[25] http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/19/rep-earl-blumenauer-announcing-the-livable-communities-task-force/
[26] http://www.earlblumenauer.com/rebuild-america/
[27] http://news.firedoglake.com/2009/10/27/off-to-d-c-to-discover-will-america-make-things-or-wither-slowly/
[28] http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/10/27/building-the-new-economy-conference/
[29] http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/27/797628/-Midday-Open-Thread
[30] http://susiemadrak.com/2009/10/27/18/37/building-the-new-economy/
[31] http://www.notsohumble.net/2009/10/26/the-case-for-big-government/
[32] http://humanrightsforworkers.blogspot.com/2009/10/ideas-on-making-it-in-america.html
[33] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/24/796699/-Making-It-in-America:-Building-the-New-Economy
[34] http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/10793
[35] http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/10/whos-.html
[36] http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2009/10/22/making-it-in-america/
[37] http://susiemadrak.com/2009/10/21/16/08/where-will-the-jobs-come-from/
[38] http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-do-we-make-by-digby-campaign-for.html