AFL-CIO To Banks: Pay to Create Jobs You Destroyed in the “Great” Recession
with
Dan Pedrotty, Director, Office of Investments, AFL-CIO

The AFL-CIO is mounting a national campaign to put America back to
work and ensure that the banks, whose reckless acts created the jobs crisis,
pay to create the jobs they destroyed, stop fighting financial reform and start
lending. Saying that neither Congress nor the Obama administration has
proposed an adequate jobs bill, the AFL-CIO is calling for extending
supplemental unemployment benefits, $2.2 trillion for unmet infrastructure
needs, & helping state & local governments overcome an estimated $588
billion shortfall over the next 4 years. The program would be paid for by
imposing fees on Wall Street banks to pay back the cost of the bank bailout,
a special levy on Wall Street bonuses, increased taxes on hedge fund &
private equity managers, & a financial transactions tax.

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
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McCainonomics vs. Obamanomics
with
Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic
Policy and Research

*Less Jobs. More Wars: What is this 'Iraq war'
charge on my bill?
*Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill? Presenting
the most blatant hypocrisy of the McCain campaign*
Plus John McCain Singing his hit tune "Bomb Iran"

by Robert Greenwald and Brave New PAC team

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McCainonomics vs. Obamanomics
with
Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic
Policy and Research

For over a generation, in so called good times and bad,
incomes of all but the rich have fallen while poverty has
increased in the Bush years, and, that was before the
economic crisis that began last year. Barak Obama is
addressing these issues, but is his plan enough? While
McCain hardly recognizes that it’s still the economy,
stupid.
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Less Jobs. More Wars: What is this 'Iraq war'
charge on my bill?
*Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill? Presenting
the most blatant hypocrisy of the McCain campaign
*Plus John McCain Singing his hit tune "Bomb Iran"

byRobert Greenwald and Brave New PAC team
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for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

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