The Solutions

In crafting an economic recovery plan, Congress must act with urgency to address the acute pain and anxiety the current economic crisis is producing in the lives of millions of working families. The current crisis brings to an end the slowest recovery in terms of job creation, wages and family incomes of any business expansion since World War II. And it comes at the end of a generation-long stagnation of wages and rising economic insecurity.

An economic fiscal package must be aggressive enough to make a difference against the powerful and still developing forces dragging the economy into recession. It should target the underlying fundamental economic imbalances that have produced the current crises if we are to avoid repeating them in the future. Among these imbalances:

Get Solutions:

• Good Jobs Green Jobs
• Save Our Homes
• Shore Up State Budgets
• Manufacturing

More:

• AFL-CIO Executive Council Statement (March 2009): America Needs a Program to Maintain and Grow Good Jobs.
• Read the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: State-by-State Estimates of Key Provisions Affecting Low and Moderate Income Individuals.
• Listen to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities podcast, Examining the Administration's 2010 Budget.
• Read the manifesto from the "Thinking Big, Thinking Forward" conference, Towards an Economics of Shared Prosperity.
• Read the Institutefor America's Future report, Beyond Recovery: America's Public Investment Deficit.
• AFL-CIO Executive Council Statement (November 2008): Renewing America's Economy
• Testimony: Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO Chief Economist, Building an Economic Recovery Package: Creating and Preserving Jobs in America.