Democrats push jobs bill with aid to states
U.S. Rep. George Miller, Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, has introduced legislation that would create or save 1 million jobs, or even more as the people who get jobs start spending money and create new jobs.
The Local Jobs for America Act would keep more teachers in the classrooms; put more police officers on the beat; and put more emergency responders in firehouses. In addition, over the next two years, the bill would put another 750,000 Americans directly to work in the public and private sectors. These would be full-time jobs that pay wages that allow workers to make ends meet for their families. And these are jobs that will help meet essential needs in local communities, needs that have only grown as a result of the recession.
The Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor think tank, helped draft the legislation, which would implement a part of the group’s American Jobs Plan, a plan that would create at least 4.6 million jobs in one year.
