So You Want To Talk About Jobs?

August 30th, 2011 by Dave Johnson

Moreover, there is no recovery to an old, healthy economy. The old economy didn’t work for most Americans even when it was growing. The cancer was spreading before it metastasized in the financial panic. In the so-called Bush recovery years before the collapse, the few captured all the rewards of growth. The average income of the bottom 90% dropped. That economy was built on debt and bubbles. We were hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs and borrowing $2 billion a day from abroad. And we were in complete denial about global warming and the catastrophic climate changes that have already begun. We can’t recover to that old economy – and we wouldn’t want to.

Summary: The old way didn’t work and led to disaster. Don’t try to bring that back, thinking it will be better this time. We need a new vision, and new strategies.

So let’s get down to business. Here are the ideas presented in our Big Ideas To Get America Working series:

Today’s Big Idea To Get America Working: Fix The Housing Crisis by Liz Ryan Murray.

Today’s Big Idea to Get America Working: Hire the Young to Build Their Own Future by Richard (RJ) Eskow.

Today’s Big Idea To Get America Working: Revive American Manufacturing by Dave Johnson.

Today’s Big Idea To Get America Working: Make Work Pay by Anne Thompson.

Today’s Big Idea To Get America Working: Invest In Public Education by Jeff Bryant.

Big Ideas To Get America Working: Rebuild Our Infrastructure by Dave Johnson.

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF.

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