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If gop wants keystone for job creation, why not piggy back a jobs bill as a whole, for the entire U.S. Reconstruction!

Submitted by al Chazin in Economy & Jobs Dec. 30, 2014, 10:51 a.m.

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#2017

40 votes

We must change our method of measurement. If we want to end Profit over People, we must stop using GDP, and instead use something along the lines of Gross National Happiness to make sure the actions we take contribute positively to our cultural goals.

Submitted by FirF in Economy & Jobs Dec. 11, 2014, 9:54 p.m.

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#2024

39 votes

KEEP ALL NON-ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES CLOSED ON ALL MAJOR HOLIDAYS!!! I don't care if you're a small business, a major conglomerate, or a "Franchisee". Also, all businesses should remain closed on Sundays. People are being worked to death, and paid meager wages with little(if any)benefits.

Submitted by J.T. in Economy & Jobs Dec. 11, 2014, 12:24 a.m.

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#2024

39 votes

Create Small Town USA grants to create small businesses to revitalize and stabilize devastated communities to impact community sustainability.

Submitted by LB K. from IL in Economy & Jobs Dec. 15, 2014, 3 p.m.

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#2046

37 votes

CREATE A THEME PARK ON A PLAYED-OUT MOUNTAINTOP-REMOVED COAL MINE: A spectacular and unique new Appalachian theme park -- and the jobs its construction and operation would create -- should be established on the strange topography and variegated contours of a used-up mountaintop coal mine!: some creative mashup of terrain park, gothic ghostland, bowers of flowers, and/or futuristic funscape of gravity tubes, slides, chutes, and flumes.

Submitted by Gregory Wright, ADA So Cal Board Member in Economy & Jobs Jan. 2, 2015, 9:57 a.m.

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#2046

37 votes

FORM national science and technology competitions to solve problems faced by the nation and the GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY such as a National Competition For Defense Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability to provide new systems that actually work to enable the world's largest bureaucracy to finally audit itself and provide young people the means and incentives to develop alternative technologies and the nec. capital resources. Investigate all fraud and misappropriation by all defense contractors.

Submitted by Christopher M. Vanderwall-Brown in Economy & Jobs Jan. 11, 2015, 12:05 a.m.

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#2046

37 votes

We have a poverty crisis. Not everyone can work (health, etc.) and there aren't jobs for all who urgently need one. Millions of low wage workers are on a tightrope with no safety net below. You can't get a job once you no longer have a home address, phone, bus fare. Because Americans are unwilling to help these fellow citizens, I would urge legislators to consider making it possible for those in foreign countries to provide help for our homeless, our ill, those in deep need of aid.

Submitted by DHFabian in Economy & Jobs Dec. 11, 2014, 10:58 p.m.

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#2056

36 votes

Pass a bill to allow the Federal Reserve to purchase 20% of all credit card debt across the board and cancel it.

Submitted by Joe in Economy & Jobs Dec. 18, 2014, 11:42 p.m.

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#2056

36 votes

Let's keep jobs for Americans and legal immigrants by enforcing workplace laws and procedures that insure job applicants and/or current job holders are authorized to work in this country.

Submitted by Wagoner in Economy & Jobs Jan. 4, 2015, 5:02 p.m.

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#2056

36 votes

Classify energy production as a national security industry and require all U.S. producers to provide First Nations purchasing status such that they must sell as much fossil fuel as the U.S. requests at the median price on the international market.

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Economy & Jobs Dec. 16, 2014, 2:52 p.m.

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#2056

36 votes

New Jobs have to be created that provide opportunities for people to work in a climate where computers (Digital Technology) can do almost everything. This will require investments in new areas far faster and larger than what the private sector alone can do. Solution: Give tax relief for the trillion$ parked overseas by private firms to invest that in new areas for business development inside their company or through investments in R&D parks, University research or research in Govt. labs.

Submitted by STIMS Institute in Economy & Jobs Dec. 11, 2014, 8:23 a.m.

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#2071

35 votes

Pass a federal law that allows retirees to raise tax fre find from the sale of investment vehicles as long as they are used ti pay off their primary home mortgage. This measure would liberate a lot of idle money and stabilize the housing market.

Submitted by Frantz Louis-Jacques in Economy & Jobs Jan. 3, 2015, 9:53 p.m.

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#2071

35 votes

Do away with Capitalism -- It's killing our planet

Submitted by Betheiam in Economy & Jobs Dec. 19, 2014, 4:19 a.m.

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#2071

35 votes

Support tax abatements and interest free (current fed rate) loans for companies that expand their workforces. Get off the job killing stuff. When you legislate always as the question - will this increase the cost of employment? or decrease it? Put some teeth behind your commitment to the working men and women of this country. Employment cannot grow if companies cannot grow

Submitted by Jobs Dude in Economy & Jobs Dec. 17, 2014, 1:23 p.m.

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#2071

35 votes

Employee Abuse: Employees are subjected to extremely loud music all day long. Customers can go in and out, but the employee is stranded in a workplace that has music constantly blaring in their ears. Sometimes it is even difficult to talk to an employee without shouting. Worse offenders to name a few: Applebees, Radio Shack, JC Penneys and Burger Lounge. Margaret Momparler, San Diego, CA PS: I am going to boycott all businesses that are not aware of their employees' health and welfare.

Submitted by yes in Economy & Jobs Jan. 2, 2015, 11:16 p.m.

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#2071

35 votes

Raise the minimum wage one dollar a year for the next twenty years. In addition guarantee an annual minimum wage to every person over the age of 18. Start at $5,000 per year and Increase that annual minimum wage every years so that in twenty years it would be $20,000 per year.

Submitted by 20 in 20 in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 10:10 p.m. 1

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#2135

31 votes

index minimum wage inversely to unemployment and pay big negative income tax to low-income workers

Submitted by Daws A. from WA in Economy & Jobs Dec. 27, 2014, 1:46 a.m.

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#2135

31 votes

Change the way corporations/companies are structured. Have all voting stock of a corporation owned by the people who work at the company/corp. At no time may a person who is not an employee able to own a voting share. If a person leaves the employ of the company, they must sell the stock back to the company at current net worth. To obtain operating capital the corp may sell non voting shares to the general public. Those share would be traded on NYSE, etc.

Submitted by PbillP65 in Economy & Jobs Jan. 5, 2015, 8:23 a.m.

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#2135

31 votes

Insure, Initiate, propose fair laws for employees who work for private companies, In addition to propose fair work ethics/practices by the Fedeal Government.

Submitted by Julia B. from PA in Economy & Jobs Jan. 9, 2015, 11:05 a.m.

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#2135

31 votes

A stewardship program for elegible immigrants operated by senior citizens.

Submitted by gmrkunas in Economy & Jobs Dec. 10, 2014, 3:05 p.m.

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#2135

31 votes

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