Up to this point today on the Daily Kos front page we have the following diaries even tangentially related to the Jobs crisis this country faces.
The unemployment report - Pretty much a news brief on the unemployment report released today.
Economics Daily Digest One link gets at the jobs problem. (Prospect)
Yesterday we got only an economic digest.
Economic Digest
I did not check the articles for jobs relation, but nothing jumped out at me.
How can we call ourselves progressives and this is all we have get on the front page of Daily Kos about the Jobs Crisis in this country?
I don't know if I will pull this off. I don't know if anyone will care enough to help. The front page of Daily Kos looks like a series of reports about what is going on. I feel like I am being wagged. Our politicians are talking about entitlement "reform", so that is what is in the front page diaries. While we must defend social programs we can do more than one thing at the same time. Can we attempt to drive the narrative instead of just reacting to it?
I will attempt to post a diary as close to daily as I can. The first part will be to harass the Front Pagers about ignoring Jobs.
The rest is a request to all of you. With the help of the community can we find our Congress people who say something that will have a positive impact on jobs and link to it, so we can encourage them, especially their constituents among this community. We should also put the negative comments by our Congress people about Jobs, especially the misguided comments that somehow austerity will help the economy.
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