Janesville, WI -- As President Obama gets ready for his big jobs speech Thursday, America's nurses have a message for him. "Heal America, Tax Wall Street!" the signs read as nurses rallied in front of 61 Congressional offices recently. The nurses are proposing a bold alternative to the "cut, cut, cut" rhetoric emanating from Washington, D.C and governors across the nation. more »
thehill.com — Liberals dismayed by Dems’ deficit-friendly job-creation agenda
“We’ll take job creation any way we can get it, but there are ways to create jobs without spending money that are more effective than what they’re talking about with the FAA extension,” said Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future.
“Passing ‘Buy American’ provisions at every level of government would not only create demand for American-made goods but it would encourage foreign companies to make siting plans for manufacturing here,” he added.
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Recent data from the Department of Labor shows the national unemployment rate has climbed over 10 percent. But that number does not paint the whole picture when taking a closer look at jobless figures by age demographic. For young adults in their late teens and early twenties, unemployment figures indicate truly dismal times. more »
Here is the Senate roll call vote on HR 2831, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which is designed to allow employees adequate time to discover and file claims against employers who violate equal pay laws. more »
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Perhaps the ultimate workplace expression of conservative "you're-on-your-own" ideology is FedEx Ground, where all of the workers who deliver packages are not FedEx employees but are independent contractors. more »
“Half of Teachers Quit in 5 Years.” Washington Post. 9 May 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/08/AR2006050801344_pf.html.
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