Labor & Employment Law

There Is No Tomorrow?America Needs Jobs Now

By James Parks

The nation’s unemployment crisis threatens the very core of the United States?entire communities, rural and metropolitan, are going under.

Writing at Huffington Post, Mark Ayers, president of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department, says the United States must immediately build on the successes of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and use scarce federal dollars in the most efficient way to boost demand and get jobless workers back to work. There is no time to waste, Ayers says.

Our nation can no longer afford to ignore the suffering of the unemployed who so desperately want to get back to productive work. Nor can we afford to indulge our leaders’ penchant for delay and political posturing, which comes at the expense of millions of working American families who are hurting. What we need now are bold approaches to economic recovery that will produce jobs.

Read Ayers’ entire post here.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).