Jobs and Jobs - Day 2

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Saturday January 05, 2013 · 10:43 PM PST

2013/01/05 · 22:43

Today's Daily Kos front page. Not a single front page diary about jobs. Are we really ignoring jobs?

Still 25 million underemployed. Still over 3 job seekers for every job opening.

In case no one caught this in on Dec 14th. Real wages in November rose 0.5 percent due to a 0.2 percent increase in hourly wages and a 0.3 percent decrease in CPI.
BLS November 2012 Real Earnings

Credit to 51percent for Elizabeth Warrens page here.
Rebuild Now
Credit to Senator Warren for addressing jobs. No credit for worrying about reducing the national debt.

The Plan is fully paid for – and it still reduces the national debt. The Rebuild Now Plan works because it re-focuses our priorities. Instead of spending billions of dollars of tax money on oil subsidies, for example, the Rebuild Now Plan would spend that money on rebuilding our roads, bridges, and mass transit. Instead of giving special tax breaks to billionaires, for example, the Rebuild Now Plan would ask them to pay a fair share toward helping finance water and sewer repairs for our cities and towns

Donner

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Friday January 04, 2013 · 8:05 PM PST

2013/01/04 · 20:05

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.

More below...

Donner

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Tuesday August 21, 2007 · 9:35 PM PDT

2007/08/21 · 21:35

Inspired by Bonddad's Rate Cuts Won't Do Jack

So, after reading Bonddad's diary and some of the comments I was inspired by Bonddad's final point "This is an issue of confidence.". I thought that statement was profound enough it deserved an explanation all on its own because monetarily things are just not that bad.

Donner

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Thursday September 01, 2005 · 5:10 PM PDT

2005/09/01 · 17:10

By my understanding there are around a million people who left the hurricane zone who are homeless and jobless. While at this point unskilled labor may not be useful, here is a way to kill a lot of birds with one stone. Read More

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An Issue of Confidence

Use the refugees to help??