Good jobs number released this number -- 200,000 jobs created in December, unemployment rate dips to 8.5 percent from 8.6 percent last month, and last year the economy created 1.64 million jobs overall. These are all encouraging signs. But we need to keep moving forward without delay. The economy is still very fragile and too many people are still out of work. (Read more.)
I was proud to join steelworkersand company executives at USS-POSCO plant in Pittsburg, CA yesterday to call on House GOP leaders to pass a bill to clamp downon China's manipulation of its currency, a practice that costs us jobs. The Contra Costa Times was there.
House panel approves bill to roll back union election rule
“That’s why it’s so frustrating that this committee is continuing to focus on attacking workers’ rights, the fundamental rights they have at work, instead of on solving the jobs crisis,” said Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the panel’s ranking member, who called the bill “the Election Prevention Act.”
George Miller and House Democrats are working hard to create good jobs here in America and to stop American corporations from sending our jobs overseas. We can Make It In America. Read more about it.
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