Unemployment
Unemployment is the condition of willing workers lacking jobs or "gainful employment". In economics, unemployment statistics measure the condition and extent of joblessness within an economy. A key measure is the unemployment rate, which is the number of unemployed workers divided by the total civilian labor force.
Joseph Biden on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Create up to 3 million "green collar jobs" and invest in training and support to add new health care workers |
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Joe Biden wants to create the new jobs in energy which he calls "green collar jobs". Green-collar jobs will make homes and businesses more energy efficient. Joe Biden has co-sponsored a worker training program that could help create 3 million new jobs as the U.S. builds a new energy future. He also believes we can meet the growing need for up to 100,000 more health care workers by investing in more training and attracting people to the profession. He wants to expand funding for nursing students through increased funding for loan repayment and scholarship programs. Joe Biden also supports retraining laid-off workers as nurses or in other heath care fields. |
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Jobs (9/5/07)
Create Green Collar Jobs: As president, Joe Biden will work to create the new jobs that come with a new world. Green-collar jobs will make homes and businesses more energy efficient. Joe Biden has been a leader in the senate, co-sponsoring a worker training program that could help create 3 million new jobs as the U.S. builds a new energy future. Meet the Demand For New Health Care Workers: Americans are living longer, healthier lives. That's creating a growing challenge to provide adequate care for all. Estimates indicate we will need to hire more than 100,000 new nurses in the next decade. We will needs thousands of health care workers and aides. Joe Biden believes we can meet that need by investing in more training and attracting people to the profession. He will expand funding for nursing students through increased funding for loan repayment and scholarship programs. Joe Biden also supports retraining laid-off workers as nurses or in other heath care fields. |
Michael Bloomberg on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Encourage work and make work pay |
| Description: | "In his second term, while balancing the budget and driving unemployment to a record low, Mayor Bloomberg has taken on a number of new challenges. He launched an innovative program to combat poverty that encourages work and makes work pay." - Bloomberg Webpage |
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Inaugural Speech (10/22/07)
"We will focus on adding and retaining jobs for all our people. The ability for everyone to have the skills and opportunity to feed one's family is the basis for a free, healthy, democratic society--and we must ensure all have it." - Bloomberg |
Hillary Clinton on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Give tax incentives for business and job creation. Provide economic development initiatives to make venture capital available to small businesses. |
| Description: | In New York, Hillary used tax incentives like wage credits for businesses and job creation in upstate New York and elsewhere. She also launched economic development initiatives to provide resources to small and micro businesses and launched a private sector venture called New Jobs for New York that makes venture capital available to New York's innovators. |
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Strengthening the Middle Class (9/5/07)
In New York, Hillary championed tax incentives like wage credits for businesses and job creation in upstate New York and elsewhere. She also helped launch economic development initiatives to provide critical resources to small and micro businesses and helped launch a private sector venture called New Jobs for New York that makes venture capital available to New York's innovators. |
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Modern Progressive Vision: Shared Prosperity (10/8/07)
Let's also finally overhaul our unemployment insurance program. Today's unemployment benefits aren't even enough to keep an average family above the poverty line. And many workers in today's economy including part time and self-employed workers are still ineligible for unemployment insurance. |
Christopher Dodd on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Create jobs and training programs in conjunction with a new energy plan; stop federal outsourcing |
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Dodd wants to create jobs and bolster training programs in conjunction with implementing a comprehensive energy policy. Chris Dodd wants to create a technical education curriculum that trains a new generation of automobile mechanics, electricians and construction workers to maintain energy-efficient goods, from cars to homes. Dodd also authored legislation - the U.S. Worker Protection Act - that sought to prevent most federal agencies from outsourcing jobs to overseas contractors. Dodd also sponsored legislation that required the Bush Administration to track and discourage the use of so-called "offset contracts " - agreements where a foreign government purchases defense-related systems from U.S. companies, but only if those companies buy goods or services from that country. |
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The Dodd Plan to Create Economic Opportunity (9/5/07)
Create Jobs and Bolster Training Programs in Conjunction with Implementing a Comprehensive Energy Policy. Chris Dodd will create a technical education curriculum that trains a new generation of automobile mechanics, electricians and construction workers to maintain energy-efficient goods, from cars to homes. His energy plan will create jobs at every stage, from production to maintenance. |
John Edwards on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Implement enforceable trade laws to protect American workers |
| Description: | John Edwards stated during his 2004 Presidential campaign that he believed unemployment was one of the major issues facing the country. He has talked about repealing NAFTA and implementing trade agreements that specify labor and environmental standards so that companies can afford to keep hiring American workers. |
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As the Jobs Go South, the Hope Goes With Them (8/26/07)
John Edwards listens to unemployed workers in Tennessee and discusses his plans to improve their prospects. They report he promised to try and repeal NAFTA. |
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Candidates Point to Economy and Jobs as Reasons to Vote Democratic (8/26/07)
John Edwards defines jobs as one of the top issues in his 2004 campaign for president. |
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John Edwards - Outsourcing (8/26/07)
1.) get rid of tax laws that give incentives to send jobs overseas 2.) we need trade agreements with enforceable trade and environmental standards |
Rudolph Giuliani on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Control fiscal spending and keep taxes low which will increase the number of jobs |
| Description: | In NYC, Rudy cut the size of city-funded government bureaucracy by nearly 20% by controlling spending and cutting wasteful programs. |
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Fiscal Discipline (9/5/07)
He wants to cut taxes and control fiscal spending which is the reason jobs are down. |
Al Gore on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Has worked to decrease the unemployment rate, during his term as vice president unemployment decrease approximately 3% and 22 million new jobs were created |
| Description: | Vice President Al Gore cast the deciding vote for the Administration's 1993 economic plan, which, among other things, has helped to reduce the unemployment rate to 4.3 percent -- a dramatic drop from the 7.5 percent unemployment rate in 1992. The unemployment rate has been at or below 5 percent for 24 consecutive months. Wrote the Employment Incentives Act of 1989, to provide tax breaks and child care credits to the working poor as an incentive to seek and maintain employment. During his term as Vice President, 22 million new jobs were created and the unemployment rate dropped from more than 7% in 1993 to 4% in November 2000. The most ever under a single administration. |
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Al Gore's Accomplishments (7/23/07)
Summary of Gore's accomplishments in the House Of Representatives, Congress, and as Vice President |
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Al Gore's Record as Vice President (7/23/07)
Summary of Al Gore's accomplishments during his term as Vice President |
Mike Huckabee on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Implement a Fair Tax which will keep stop outsourcing and create new jobs by supporting businesses |
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"When you export over-priced goods as we have, you inevitably end up exporting jobs and industries as we now are. We are the square peg trying to fit into the round hole of international trade. The rest of the world isn't going to change, it's time that we do. Under the Fair Tax, American companies are far less likely to move overseas and foreign companies are far more likely to come here, hiring Americans to build and work in their new plants. The Fair Tax encourages growth by promoting investment and capital formation." - Mike Huckabee |
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Taxes/Economy (9/5/07)
Under the FairTax, American companies are far less likely to move overseas and foreign companies are far more likely to come here, hiring Americans to build and work in their new plants. The FairTax encourages growth by promoting investment and capital formation. |
Duncan Hunter on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Tax relief, teach and train as opposed to hand outs |
| Description: | "An over-taxing government is the biggest contributor to creating poverty... I believe all citizens are deserving of tax relief and tax-cutting policies benefit the American economy as a whole... It is important to create a federal tax policy that is both fair to American taxpayers while, at the same time, ensuring that our nation meets its financial obligations... Finally, my basic philosophy is to teach and train and inspire rather than simply give government "hand outs"." - Duncan Hunter |
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Empowerment of the poor and the alleviation of poverty (7/26/07)
Hunter on how to stop poverty. |
Dennis Kucinich on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Produce millions of jobs with new public works program focusing on green energy; withdraw from NAFTA and the WTO |
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Kucinich plans to produce millions of middle class jobs with a new public works program combining the infrastructure and energy needs of our country. His proposed Works Green Administration (WGA) will come from joining a Works Program Administration with the Environmental Protection Agency. Kucinich also wants to save American jobs by withdrawing from trade deals like the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) and organizations like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and return to bilateral trade agreements based on securing workers' rights and the environment. |
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Survival of the Middle Class (9/5/07)
Produce millions of middle class jobs with a new public works program combining the infrastructure and energy needs of our country. A Works Green Administration (WGA) will come from joining a Works Program Administration with the Environmental Protection Agency. 4) Save American jobs by withdrawing from job-killing trade deals like the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) and organizations like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and return to bilateral trade agreements based on securing workers rights and the environment. |
Barack Obama on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Have subsidized training and apprentice programs to get people work skills and jobs; encourage public-private incubators |
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Obama wants to invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathways programs that help low-income Americans succeed in the workforce. The transitional jobs program will help people with extreme difficulties getting and keeping good jobs into temporary, subsidized wage-paying jobs to gain necessary job skills before applying for unsubsidized jobs in the private and public sectors. The career pathways would help people move up the career ladder by providing funding for bridge and career pathways programs that partner the federal government with employers, organized labor and community-based organizations to identify job opportunities, develop customized training and apprentice programs, and help place low-income employees in better jobs. Obama also wants to encourage entrepreneurship and spur job growth by creating a national network of public-private business incubators. Obama wants to invest $250 million per year to increase the number and size of incubators in disadvantaged communities throughout the country. |
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Jobs (9/5/07)
Expand Transitional Jobs and Career Pathways Programs: Barack Obama believes that all Americans who want to work should not only be able to gain meaningful employment, but should also be able to move up the career ladder to further support their families.. Obama will invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathways programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce. This investment will be coupled with other measures to incentivize the private sector, as well as state and local governments, to increase their support of these effective employment programs. |
Ron Paul on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Cut taxes to create more jobs |
| Description: | "Whether a tax cut reduces a single mother's payroll taxes by $40 a month or allows a business owner to save thousands in capital gains taxes and hire more employees, that tax cut is a good thing. Lower taxes allow more spending, saving, and investing which helps the economy - that means all of us." - Ron Paul |
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Debt and Taxes (9/5/07)
He wants to cut taxes to create jobs. |
Bill Richardson on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Create jobs by restoring fiscal discipline, investing in technology and innovation, and investing in and protecting the American workforce |
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Richardson outlines three ways to create new jobs.... 1. Restoring fiscal discipline to our government by returning to the budget surpluses we experienced during the Clinton Administration. 2. Investing in technology and innovation through a combination of tax credits, Green Jobs programs, and the establishment of 250 Math, Science, and Innovation Academies throughout the country. 3. Investing in and protecting the American workforce through tax credits that offer incentives for good-paying jobs in all sectors and regions of the country, including manufacturing and rural areas. |
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Issues: Jobs and the Economy (9/5/07)
he has a plan to create jobs. |
Mitt Romney on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Tax Reform will create more jobs |
| Description: | "I said no to a tax hike; raising taxes hurts working people and scares away jobs. I also said no to more borrowing; borrowing just shifts our problems to the backs of our kids . . . Instead, I went after waste, inefficiency, duplication, and patronage." - Romney |
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Taxes (9/5/07)
"I said no to a tax hike; raising taxes hurts working people and scares away jobs. I also said no to more borrowing; borrowing just shifts our problems to the backs of our kids . . . Instead, I went after waste, inefficiency, duplication, and patronage." |
Tom Tancredo on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Tax Reform, balancing the budget, and Trade Reform will increase business and increase jobs |
| Description: | Tancredo wants to do away with the IRS and complex tax codes, remove the President's fast track authority, and balance the budget by cutting a lot of the discretionary funding. All of these things support the creation of jobs by increasing wealth and giving incentives for companies to expand. |
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Tom stands for America (9/5/07)
A bunch of summaries about where he stands on various issues. |
Fred Thompson on Unemployment
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| Stance: | Lower taxes to increase jobs |
| Description: | A policy of lowering taxes, Thompson said, would stimulate economic growth and "make the pie bigger." |
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