Responding to the continuing massive jobs deficit, Chicago Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky proposed to create 2 million jobs, introducing the “Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act.”  Surrounded by Chicago JwJ coalition leaders and other groups, Schakowsky declared:

“Unlike the long disproven claims that more tax breaks for wealthy corporations will lead to more employment, I have a bill that will actually work.  How can we guarantee this bill will get 2 million people back to work?  By hiring them!”

The proposal, which could be more than paid for by taxing millionaires or financial speculation, establishes:

1)      School Improvement Corps – Creates 400,000 construction and 250,000 maintenance jobs through new funding to public school districts for needed school rehabilitation improvements ($100 billion)

2)      Park Improvement Corps – Creates 100,000 jobs for youth between the ages of 16 and 25 through new funding to the Department of the Interior and the USDA Forest Servi

ce’s Public Lands Corps Act. Conservation projects

Continue reading Brother can you spare 2 million jobs? Emergency Jobs Bill proposed.

More than a year after the big banks crashed our economy and took their bailouts (without delivering on the promised help for the economy), these bailout bandits are planning record bonuses and trying to block a recovery for the rest of us (note to Goldman Sachs:  There is no such thing as a “jobless recovery”).

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and other measures to add some accountability and responsibility to our financial system.  The bill is called the “Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” (HR4173).

The bailout bandits, of course, are furiously fighting all these reforms.

Please take a moment to tell your Representative to pass a strong, pro-consumer reform bill.