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Here are a few items worth noting today.
* Kudos to union members in West Virginia who successfully pushed the state’s legislature to adopt a resolution creating Labor History week following Labor Day. Just last month, Wisconsin union activists succeeded in their years-long effort to get the state legislature to make labor history part of the state’s public education standards.
* From the Campaign for America’s Future: Huffington Post’s Art Delaney highlights expiring stimulus program that could cost 100,00 jobs: “…more than 100,000 people…will lose their jobs by September unless Congress extends a stimulus bill provision that gives states funding to create jobs programs for low-income parents and young adults….”
* A laid-off worker now spends nearly five months unemployed, longer than any other time on record, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
* In the “here’s how hard up we are for good news about jobs” category: The ratio of job seekers per job opening dropped from six to one in December to 5.4 in January. How sad is it that this is good news?
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How the hell can you have an economy that hasnt added 1 net job in 2years, yet the unemployment rate goes down and the ratio of jobseeker to jobs goes down??I was born at night,but not last night.
If we do not know the extent of the problem,how do we go about fixing it?
One way to decrease unemployement in this country is to demand that the Congress do more to place limits on the outsourceing of jobs overseas so that American workers would no longer be forced to compete with the starvation wages paid to the peasant class of developing countries where our jobs are being outsourced.
Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon had introduced a bill to Congress back in April of ‘09 called “H.R. 1875 Emergency Commission to End The Trade Deficit” which would, among other things, actually enforce all of the rules in the existing trade agreements, thereby making it much more difficult for American companies to ship any more jobs overseas. The bill was submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee in April of 2009 and not much has been done about it since. So my suggestion to the readers of this blog is to contact The Ways and Means Comittee and/or their elected representative directly and demand that they get moving on this bill and others like it.
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=10470
or if you prefer to contact an elected official directly:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
We need to start focussing on Employee owned companies. Owned 100% by Employee’s not stock holders or private cooperations. Employee owned companies are more productive, and profitable. They don’t send jobs overseas, have a vested interest in the success of the company, provide good health insurance. We need to focus on getting the Govt to start coughing up bailout money to people who want to start employee owned companies meaning everyone makes the same and has the same share in the company. They own the company. It isn’t the same as socialism or communism in Russia because those people did not own anything, the Govt owned and distributed the wealth. In an employee owned company, the employees have the control, not the govt or the elite. Start producing food in the states and cut out all The Fat Cats making huge profits while we starve.
Good luck getting the US Govt to do your bidding for you.
You have to put the power and control back into the hands of the citizens. The only way to do this is for people to start building businesses owned by employees. The problem in the US is GREED. Americans are greedy and once they start a business they take the same route everyone else does and they start outsourcing jobs. Go to employee owned companies with some finance incentives from the Govt and you will see that go away.
A company that is owned by it’s employees is going to do better than a company owned by the global elite if people start waking up and supporting their fellow citizens.