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US needs full-employment agenda
Written by Reps. John Conyers, Jr and Frederica Wilson
In the wake of an unprecedented period of high unemployment and amid turmoil overseas, a president stood before a joint session of Congress for his annual State of the Union address, offering a bold vision to expand economic opportunity, strengthen the middle class and reduce inequality. The year was 1944. The president was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Conyers & Congressional Advocates Announce Creation of Full Employment Caucus
Written by Rep. John Conyers
Today, in response to the ongoing jobs crisis in America, Representatives John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), José Serrano (D-N.Y.), and Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) announced the creation of a Congressional Full Employment Caucus.
HR 1000 - Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act
Written by Office of Rep. John Conyers
This bill will create a national jobs program, including 3.1 to 6.2 million jobs, and 1 to 2 million additional jobs indirectly over the first two years, in affordable housing, rural and urban community rehabilitation, energy conservation and weatherization, infrastructure repair, education, human services, and first response teams.
Conyers’ Legacy Continues With Push For Jobs By Congress
Written by Bob Weiner | Michchronicleonline.com
However, anyone who thinks Conyers’ time has passed has not run around with him on his still frenetic schedule of meetings and actions. He is as effective as ever and still runs the meetings with precise organization and energy driving to further action.
Conyers said this week, “My most important bill is the Full Employment Act,” and he convenes weekly meetings in his office with national and Detroit leaders on strategies to increase jobs by legislation, executive action, and pushes in the media.
Emergency Jobless Benefits Cut-Off Has Hit Nearly 300,000 Veterans
Written by Chad Stone | Off the Charts
The number of jobless veterans who’ve lost access to federal jobless benefits since Congress allowed Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) to expire at the end of last year — which we estimated at the end of February was close to 200,000 and counting — will reach an estimated 285,000 by the end of this month.
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