So why is AIA looking to protect the Pentagon budget and place the deficit burden squarely on the shoulders of job creating programs and taxpayers?
Instead of making major cuts in job creating programs in infrastructure, public transportation and sustainable energy we must do away with a wide variety of loopholes that allow Wall Street executives, whose profits and compensation packages are soaring, to have a lower tax rate than middle class workers.
Created by Congress in 1990, EB-5 has emerged as a critical job-creating program through which investors around the world fund projects across the country – all without costing the taxpayer a dime.
That was more than a decade ago, when Mr. Hawkins was advancing the notion of a huge Federal job-creating program.
Call your Senators or send them a message and tell them not to let this job-creating program expire.
We need more stimulus, an outright jobs-creating program, tax incentives to keep jobs here, serious infrastructure and manufacturing investment by the government, and perhaps a reconsideration of free-trade policies.
These should include "narratives across: public policy, environmental stewardship, workforce development, community engagement, and, quantitative metrics across: job creation, quality of jobs & benefits offered (including wealth creating programs such as Employee Stock Ownership Plans), environmental metrics, supply chain accountability, among others.
Tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs within weeks unless Congress extends one of the more effective job-creating programs in the $787 billion stimulus act: a $1 billion New Deal-style program that directly paid the salaries of unemployed people so they could get jobs in government, at nonprofit organizations and at many small businesses.
In the next few days, the Senate is expected to pass a stimulus bill that will inject around $820 billion in government funding into national infrastructure and other job-creating programs.
We need jobs-training and job-creating programs with the public and private sectors working in partnership.
