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Building an Economy that Works for All
In response to the economic crisis and record unemployment, Congress and the Obama Administration should enact The Local Jobs for America Act, introduced by Congressman George Miller in the House (H.R.4812) and Senator Sherrod Brown in the Senate (S.3500). The Act would create or save 1 million jobs to put people to work quickly, help them provide for their families while improving their neighborhoods, generate income to help our economy grow, and ensure that essential community services remain available.
Learn more about the campaign to create good, local jobs.
The Center for Community Change and our partner organizations are also engaged in long term campaigns to raise wages; protect workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain; establish subsidized jobs programs created through the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund, and ensure that America’s jobs are quality jobs. We are also organizing to ensure that all workers benefit from the creation of new, good jobs through federal investments in clean energy and infrastructure.
Good jobs are only part of a truly just economy. We know that a just economy involves reform on many different issues including, but not limited to: legal recognition of undocumented workers in the United States and implementation of health care reform. Until we address all of these issues holistically, opponents of change will use these issues to divide the progressive community and stop reform from happening.
Learn more about the campaign to create good, local jobs at the Campaign for Community Change.
