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.
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It's time for Congress and the
Obama Administration to act decisively. It's time to put Americans back to
work.
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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). |
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CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U. S. Department of Labor,Employment and Training Administration, provides important unemployment insurance information. |
Tell Congress America Needs JOBS Now!
JOBS! Facts:
- 15.1 million unemployed, 9.2 million involuntary part time workers, 5.6 million workers who looked for a job in the last year but could not find one, and 998,000 workers who dropped out of the workforce since May, 2009 -- that's over 31 million Americans idled by this Grave Recession.
- Movin’ On Up: Reforming America’s Social Contract to Provide a Bridge to the Middle Class (CEPR)
- Job Watch www.jobwatch.org - Tracking jobs and wages
