Declare a Jobs Emergency on September 15!

Submitted by Anna on Tue, 09/14/2010 - 16:43

Mary Bottari
September 13, 2010

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Published by The Huffington Post.

Job cuts sometimes have a way of sneaking up on you — a few teachers here, a police officer there and a fire department that may not be open when you need them. In some areas it is a slow bleed, but as every EMT knows, a thousand small cuts can still kill the patient.

One group is pushing back against the drip, drip, drip of disappearing jobs and relentless cutbacks in public services. Jobs with Justice (JwJ), the broad-based coalition of faith groups, labor unions, students and grassroots organizations located in 47 communities across the nation, says it simply will not accept a jobless recovery.

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