"Words that make actions speak louder."
CAF today called on members of Congress to “quickly renew robust, long-term funding for the Highway Trust Fund” as the House prepares to vote on a short-term fix and the White House launches a public relations offensive.
Members of both parties in both houses have elected to reduce the debate over transportation spending to a discussion of the size and material of the Band-Aid, rather than what it would take to cure the patient.
The rallying point is Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers’ Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act: “It’s past time for our government to make creating jobs and full employment a human right.”
With the federal government stymied in its ability to help state and local governments launch long-term public infrastructure projects, we’re seeing the ripple effects in the employment statistics.
The Senate minority leader thinks the best way to help pay for a $2.7 billion bridge rebuilding project in Kentucky is to stiff the workers who would do the work. A poll shows that idea is wildly unpopular.
A stalled effort to get a transportation funding bill through a Senate committee is the latest sign that congressional Republicans won’t stop playing the zero-sum austerity game.
Sen. Sherrod Brown rejects a repatriation tax holiday and instead proposes a different short-term solution for the Highway Trust Fund that would have long-term benefits for workers.
Legislation introduced Tuesday would restart unemployment benefits for more than 3 million unemployed. But what the long-term unemployed really want and need is our focus on creating more jobs.
A leading House Democrat says that making it harder for corporations to use overseas affiliates to avoid paying U.S. corporate taxes would help shore up a fund for transportation projects that’s about to run dry.
Just as the White House was registering its opposition to a corporate tax holiday for companies that are sheltering profits overseas, a House Democrat was selling the proposal in a campaign ad.