Jobs For America Now Backs Local Jobs For America Act To Create A Million Jobs

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http://www.laborradio.org/node/13297

Submitted by Doug Cunningham on April 12, 2010 - 2:58pm
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By Doug Cunningham

The Local Jobs For America act would create a million local jobs starting this year by investing $75 billion over two years. Alan Charney of The Jobs For America Now coalition – a diverse and broad-based coalition of labor unions and allied progressive organizations .

: “This bill will create a million jobs. And we’ll be able to say exactly how many jobs are created in each city, in each county, in each congressional district. So members of Congress will be able to go home and say I helped create jobs for you.”

Charney says the private sector has failed to create the number of jobs workers need for ten years now, so government must move to create jobs on the huge scale workers really need.

: "We are facing a jobless recovery. Stock market is up, corporate profits are up but jobs aren't being created. And this is bad omen for working people in this country. Not just those who are unemployed and underemployed, but for everyone."

The Jobs For America Now coalition includes the AFL-CIO, SEIU, NAACP and La Raza among many other groups.