AFL-CIO Lays Out Five-Point National Jobs Strategy

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Submitted by Doug Cunningham on November 17, 2009 - 4:47pm
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AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka laid out a national jobs strategy Tuesday in Washington. Trumka presented the five-point plan during an Economic Policy Institute jobs panel that included leading national civil rights organizations. Kate Sheehy reports from Washington.

Trumka began his speech to the crowd at the Economic Policy Institute with a story about a young woman with a bleak future...and he says her situation is too common.

: " To see a generation of bright young people who may never reach their full potential and whose lifetime earnings will be stunted because of this economy."

He said he was confident that the President and Congress know action is needed now. Trumka shared the five point job strategy he would be taking to the White House.

: "First we have to extend unemployment benefits, food assistance and health care for the unemployed."

Trumka also called for creating green jobs, boosts in state and local aid and TARP money for community banks. He will attend President Obama's job summit in December, hoping to lay the foundation for the five point plan.

Kate Sheehy, Worker's Independent News