Jobs: National Jobs Creation Strategy that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will announce Tuesday!

[Omaha Steve]

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November 13th, 2009

On Thursday, President Obama announced he will invite labor leaders, business executives, small business owners, economists and other financial experts to a special White House summit on jobs next month.

The summit announcement came as a new report showed there were 502,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits last week. Dire as that is, it’s lower than expected and is the smallest number of first-time claims since January.

And just this week, the AFL-CIO Executive Council met in Washington, D.C., to outline a national jobs creation strategy that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will announce Tuesday at a special Economic Policy Institute (EPI) jobs and economy panel and seminar. (Plan now to view the live webcast from 9-11:30 a.m. (ET), Tuesday, Nov. 17, at www.aflcio.org/createjobs.)

Read more at the AFL-CIO Now Blog.