Sunday, February 21, 2010

Trumka: Creating Jobs Is Best way to Fix Deficit


by James Parks, Feb 19, 2010

The best way to reduce the growing federal deficit is to create 10 million jobs now—the number of jobs needed to close our jobs deficit—not to cut vital programs such as Social Security and Medicare, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said.

President Obama yesterday signed an executive order creating an 18-member National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to propose ways to reduce the growing national debt. Click here to read the executive order.