"It’s Still the Economy, Stupid" by Bill Clinton, Newsweek 6/19/2011
Excerpt
Fourteen million Americans remain out of work, a waste of our greatest resource. The 42nd president has more than a dozen ideas on how to attack the jobs crisis.
14 WAYS TO PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK
Next week in Chicago, the Clinton Global Initiative will focus on America for the first time, inviting business and political leaders to make specific commitments in support of the former president’s jobs blueprint, which he details below.
- SPEED THE APPROVALS
- CASH FOR STARTUPS
- JOBS GALORE IN ENERGY
- COPY THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (had to detail this one as an example)
Just look at the Empire State Building—I can see it from my office window. Our climate-change people worked on their retrofit project. They cleared off a whole floor for a small factory to change the heating and air conditioning, put in new lighting and insulation, and cut energy-efficient glass for the windows. Johnson Controls, the energy-service company overseeing the project, guaranteed the building owners their electricity usage would go down 38 percent—a massive saving, which will enable the costs of the retrofits to be recovered through lower utility bills in less than five years. Meanwhile, the project created hundreds of jobs and cut greenhouse-gas emissions substantially. We could put a million people to work retrofitting buildings all over America.- GET THE UTILITIES IN ON THE ACTION
- STATE-BY-STATE SOLUTIONS
- GUARANTEE LOANS
- PAINT ’EM WHITE (rooftops)
- DEALS TO MAKE THINGS
- TRAIN ON THE JOB (like high school or union apprentice programs)
- TEACH SKILLS WE NEED
- CUT CORPORATE TAXES
- ENFORCE TRADE LAWS
- ANALYZE THE OPPORTUNITIES
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