1. Restore the Summer Youth Jobs Program as a Stand-alone Program Employing 5 million Teens in the Summer 2011
2. Create 100 Urban Jobs Academies to Implement an Expansion of the Urban Youth Empowerment Program.
3. Develop a Dynamic National Public-Private Jobs Initiative to Create Jobs and Train Urban Residents and Stimulate Economic Growth in the areas of Technology and Broadband, Health Care, Manufacturing, Transportation and Public Infrastructure and Clean Energy.
4. Boost Minority Participation in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industries.
5. Reform, Revise and Reauthorize Workforce Investment Act to prepare and retrain workers for 21st century jobs.
6. Create Green Empowerment Zones.
7. Expand Small Business Lending.
8. Initiate Tax Reform that reduces rates across the board and eliminates tax loopholes.
9. Establish and Promote Multilateral International Trade Policies that expand the market for American goods and services.
10. Enact the Urban Jobs Act (H.R. 5708).
11. Expand the Hiring of Housing Counselors Nationwide.
12. Fund Direct Job Creation in cities and states.
What are your thoughts?
5 comments:
My 2 cents:
1. OK, but where does the money come from? We're broke.
2. YEP, again, money? And how much of this is duplication of money and effort provided by other gov programs? (Aside:) their Rural Homelessness project,if ongoing fills and worthwhile seems especially important.
3. Sounds good if we let the job providers in the private sector lead the way.
4. If it is a real program and not a feel good exercise and employment scam for adults.
5. Lord help us.
6. Maybe, if you keep the gov out to avoid a Fannie/Freddie style mandate to lend to anybody who wants a loan.
7. If they mean it when they say "across the board" and not the usual political payoffs to donors and PC groups and ideas.
8. Theoretically already happening, but an anti-business administration beholden to the unions make it tough.
9. Grants to the Urban League? For real change and job creation? See #5.
10. Money?
One other thing. What about poor urban whites, native americans hispanics and, gasp, even asians, they get any love here?
Keep fighting the good and fight and running that race.
Pretty good randye. For right now the only thing I'd say is it is a critical mistake to look at money invested in job training as a give-away.
The ROI on living wage jobs take unemployed citizens and turns them into wage earners (and tax payers). The determing factor is the quality of the job training program.
The basic concern around urban (i.e. African-American ) unemployement is that it is twice that of the national unemployment rate. No matter what the unemploymemt rate its unhealthy for the rest of the country. And at the end of the day not a 'presonal responsibility' issue (not for nearly 17% of any given demographic). Its a systemic issue.
Why is it so hard for us to see when it comes to issues like this that, as in the rest of our lives, we see improvement where we align investment, energy, will and priority. you are right: no giveaway here, just solid commitment to investing in OUR future and that our the children of America.
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