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State Job Creation Strategies Part I: Finding the Money and Investing in Human Capital and Physical Infrastructure
Jan 19, 2010
As this Dispatch will highlight, the first step is to fund jobs that support long-term economic competitiveness, notably by investing in people and physical infrastructure. While the economic climate for profit-making business opportunities is more limited, investments in education, health care,... -
Take Action: Additional Federal Job Creation and State Fiscal Relief Needed
Jan 05, 2010
With the new year, Progressive States Network is working with allies to launch a campaign to demand a new, federal job creation plan that includes fiscal relief to state and local governments in order to foster economic growth and create and maintain jobs. We are asking state legislators to sign... -
Buy American and Fair Trade Policies to Spur National and Global Economic Recovery
Apr 27, 2009
As this Dispatch will outline, Buy American policies are a first step in promoting an alternative to the trade and deregulation policies that fueled the current economic crisis. Ultimately, we need policies that strengthen local tools for economic growth at home, combined with fair trade... -
The Financial Bailout and the Challenge for the States: De-Leveraging Working Families
Sep 29, 2008
According to The Wall Street Journal, "Fed and Treasury officials have identified the disease. It's called de-leveraging, or the unwinding of debt. During the credit boom, financial institutions and American households took on too much debt." But let's not buy into a false equivalence...
