Jobs Crisis Forum: The Time for Excuses Is Over. Create Jobs Now

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Jobs Crisis Forum: The Time for Excuses Is Over. Create Jobs Now(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)“All I want is a decent job,” said Shonda Sheen. “I want to work. I love to work. I’m scared. I don’t know what’s going to happen to my mother. I have a home to pay off.” Sheen,  of Yellow Springs, Ohio, was laid off in December 2009 and is about to run out of unemployment benefits. Because of state budget cuts, she also could soon lose the health care nurse who helps care for her mother who has dementia. At the last job she applied for, she was told 450 others had applied for the same position. Sheen and Bob Stein, a 60-year-old former salesman who has been out of work since May 2010, are two of the 14 million Americans who are unemployed—and their story is not being told in the midst of the debate over the deficit. Sheen and Stein, who are both members of Working America, spoke to a forum on “The Jobs Crisis—Moving to Action: A Dialogue Between Workers and Policymakers” at the AFL-CIO yesterday morning. Click here to read the rest of this report.
- James Parks, on the AFL-CIO Now blog; photo: Shonda Sheen talks with AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker at the AFL-CIO panel on the jobs crisis; photo by Danielle Hatchett

 

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