The Urgent Need for Job Creation

On the heels of the Senate vote on the extension of unemployment benefits, Sen. Al Franken, Rep. Keith Ellison and Alan Charney of Jobs for America Now joined John Schmitt of CEPR for a press conference to discuss the findings of a new CEPR report on the desperate need for action on job creation. The report shows that absent serious proposals for job creation, it may take a decade for the nation to get back to pre-recession unemployment rates.

America Speaks Back on the Deficit

AmericaSpeaks hosted 19 simultaneous meetings in cities across the country asking people to come up with proposals for dealing with the country's projected long-term budget deficits. CEPR's analyses of the discussion materials for the meetings show that they were aimed at persuading participants to choose cuts to Social Security and Medicare, but it seems that events didn't quite go as planned.