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Over 31 million Americans need our help! Idled by this Grave Recession, the unemployed, involuntary part-time workers and discouraged job hunters have run out of options. They need JOBS Now!

JOBS Now!, a comprehensive strategy to put millions of unemployed Americans back to work immediately, calls for a second stimulus package, one focused on investing more in the manufacturing and transportation sectors of our economy and providing more skills training. 

 

It's time for Congress and the Obama Administration to act decisively.  It's time to put Americans back to work.

  Blue-Collar Workers Bear Brunt of Decline - The recession has been more like a depression for blue-collar workers, who are losing jobs much more quickly than the nation as a whole… the ratio of job seekers to jobs in their sector: construction 65:1, manufacturing 24:1, white collar professional 2:1.

Click here to read the entire January 19, 2010, article by Robert Gavin (The Boston Globe).

  CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U. S. Department of Labor,Employment and Training Administration, provides important unemployment insurance information.

Tell Congress America Needs JOBS Now!

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