Congressional Progressive Caucus Speakout for Good Jobs Tour - Get Involved!

America1st wrote:stop outsourcing jobs and hiring foreigners would be a good place to start

do they need a "tour" to figure that out ?

DesperateInRI wrote:More information about the Congressional Progressive Caucus:
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/

The Progressive Promise:
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=63&sectiontree=2,63

"The People's Budget" (which includes funding for HR 589)
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/files/The_CPC_FY2012_Budget.pdfCaucus

Members
Co-Chairs

Keith Ellison

Raúl Grijalva
Vice Chairs

Tammy Baldwin

Judy Chu

William “Lacy” Clay

Sheila Jackson-Lee

Chellie Pingree
Whip

Hank Johnson
Senate Member

Bernie Sanders
House Members

Karen Bass

Xavier Becerra

Earl Blumenauer

Robert Brady

Corrine Brown

Michael Capuano

Andre Carson

Donna Christensen

Yvette Clarke

Emanuel Cleaver

David Cicilline

Steve Cohen

John Conyers

Elijah Cummings

Danny Davis

Peter DeFazio

Rosa DeLauro

Donna Edwards

Sam Farr

Chaka Fattah

Bob Filner

Barney Frank

Marcia Fudge

Luis Gutierrez

Maurice Hinchey

Mazie Hirono

Michael Honda

Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Marcy Kaptur

Dennis Kucinich

Barbara Lee

John Lewis

David Loebsack

Ben Ray Lujan

Carolyn Maloney

Ed Markey

Jim McDermott

James McGovern

George Miller

Gwen Moore

Jim Moran

Jerrold Nadler

Eleanor Holmes Norton

John Olver

Frank Pallone

Ed Pastor

Donald Payne

Jared Polis

Charles Rangel

Laura Richardson

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Bobby Rush

Linda Sanchez

Jan Schakowsky

Jose Serrano

Louise Slaughter

Pete Stark

Bennie Thompson

John Tierney

Nydia Velazquez

Maxine Waters

Mel Watt

Peter Welch

Frederica Wilson

Lynn Woolsey

mj33 wrote:Representative Cleavors, acting chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is also asking for our involvement/opinions on job creation, as he just spoke out about it with their intended plans for this summer. I mentioned to one of our mod's in a PM that perhaps we can formulate a video w/ 4 basic bullet points on specific job creation interventions that would help us, focusing on both short/long term, showing him that we are organized and serious about our problem. Of course, we know that one of the key points has to be immediate emergency financial assistance for the long term UI exhaustees enabling them to pay for basic emergency bills from past 14 months up until now.

I also believe we need a longitudinal study tracking the 99ers from a leading economist as its overdue now (14 months and going strong), and would reveal outcomes based results of tracking amount of those in poverty, evicted, homeless, shelters, bankruptcies, diagnosed mental health diseases etc... UpJohn research has been involved in past on some levels for UI and there's new subcomittee being formed by McKenzie group on job creation just announced last thur. at beginning of CSpans live televised hearing on economic development and job creation.

X wrote:So you want to be free
To live your life the way you wanna be
Will you give if we cry
Will we live or will we die?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRvWQmYMeM

Every day counts. Let's do our best!

DesperateInRI wrote:

Here is your chance to get involved! Tell them your story, attend a rally, make your voice heard!

The Speakout for Good Jobs Now tour will feature stops in numerous cities across America giving Americans the chance to speak out about how the economy is affecting them. Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will listen to what everyday Americans have to say and take that back to Washington with them as they continue to fight to reinvigorate the American Dream — the ability to put in a day’s hard work for good wages and benefits so we can provide our children with a better future.

Tell us your story. Are you a single mom struggling to make ends meet? Are you a young college graduate working a part-time, minimum wage job? Are you unemployed or under-employed? Tell us about your situation and why you believe we need to make it easier to help Americans earn a fair wage for a hard day's work. You can also, using the appropriate box below, submit the link to a YouTube video where you tell us your story via video. Be sure to tag your video with "SpeakOut."

http://action.progressivecongress.org/p/salsa/web/questionnaire/public/?questionnaire_KEY=546

http://speakouttour.com/

http://speakouttour.com/?page_id=2

http://speakouttour.com/?page_id=8

http://speakouttour.com/?page_id=39