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Symposium to Tackle Challenge of Putting America Back to Work |
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The contrast is staggering: While Wall Street celebrates record earnings for the fat cats at the top financial firms, the reality on Main Street is that more than one in six working Americans is now unemployed or underemployed.
In the midst of this jobless “recovery,” leading policymakers and experts will gather to discuss how public policy should respond to this unprecedented unemployment crisis at the conference, “The Jobs Deficit: The Challenge of Putting America Back to Work.” The New America Foundation’s Bernard L. Schwartz Economic Symposium is sponsoring the discussion Oct. 20 in Washington, D.C.
For more information and to register for the symposium, click here.
Jared Bernstein, chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, will deliver the keynote address. Other speakers will grapple with questions such as:
- “Will rising levels of unemployment undermine the economic recovery and provoke yet another wave of home foreclosures and bank failures?
- “How can Congress, the administration, and state governments work together to stem rising unemployment?”
- “What combination of private sector incentives and public-supported job creation programs offer the greatest promise of putting America back to work?”
Confirmed speakers include Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Reps. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Michael Mandel, chief economist for Business Week magazine, Leo Hindery, Jr. of Inter-Media Partners and former economics adviser to presidential candidate John Edwards, Thea Lee of the AFL-CIO and Michael Lind of the New America Foundation.
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If we’re going to put Americans back to work it would seem to me that first we’re going to have to rid ourselves of the ‘foreign’ workers in our country. The first of those to go, of course, needs to be the illegals. But we also need to ‘downsize’ all those who are here legally on work visas. With the number of unemployed Americans continuing to rise we don’t need ‘imported’ workers. Companies who are using foreign workers are doing so for one reason and one reason only, they work cheap! I was sickened by the site of Bill Gates pleading his case for ‘needing’ more foreign workers. Sure he needs ‘em. They cost him less. W
If we’re going to put Americans back to work it would seem to me that first we’re going to have to rid ourselves of the ‘foreign’ workers in our country. The first of those to go, of course, needs to be the illegals. But we also need to ‘downsize’ all those who are here legally on work visas. With the number of unemployed Americans continuing to rise we don’t need ‘imported’ workers. Companies who are using foreign workers are doing so for one reason and one reason only, they work cheap! I was sickened by the site of Bill Gates pleading his case in DC of his ‘need’ for more foreign workers. Sure he needs ‘em. They cost him less. Companies use the excuse that they can’t find enough ‘qualified’ American workers to fill the positions they have open but the truth of the matter is that a lot of these jobs are entry level, low skill jobs that nearly anyone can be taught to do. But then, if the companies hire and train American workers they have to pay American wages. And they can’t have that eating into their bottom line. Even though they continue to pay ‘upper management’ more money in one year than the average American will make in a lifetime! We absolutely need to put Americans back to work but until we stop importing ‘cheap’ labor I just don’t see it happening.
How are a bunch of Democrats going to help labor? They have had their chance and squandered it, stealing money from workers to bail out bankers. They are as corrupt as their Republican partners in crime.
If we need a new New Deal to put people back to work and repair our economy, then we need the kinds of militant, socialist, and radical parties, actions, and leaders that helped end the last ‘great’ Depression.
Jared Bernstein has nothing to offer. We need to hear from and include Independents like Bernie Sander and Ralph Nader, Greens like Cynthia McKinney, and Socialists like Frances Villar .
The EPA isn’t concerned about putting Americans back to work. They’re not even concerned about KEEPING Americans working. They just rescinded a permit for acompany in the mountaintop removal mining business. I don’t know just how many miners this has put out of work but I’m sure it’s a substantial number. Decisions like these certainly are not going to ’stimulate the economy’! Obama stated he would bankrupt the coal mining industry. This is apparently the beginning. I guess cap & trade is the next step. I just wonder if all the people who think these crackdowns on the coal companies are ‘for the greater good’ are aware that 52% of the electricity in this country is generated by plants that are powered by coal. Wonder who’s gonna be keepin’ the lights on when the coal begins to disappear?