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Businesses won’t create new jobs without enough customers. But most
Americans no longer have enough purchasing power to fuel that job
growth.
That’s why it’s so important to (1) raise the minimum wage at least to
its inflation-adjusted value 40 years ago — which would be well over $10
an hour, (2) extend unemployment benefits to the jobless, (3) launch a
major jobs program to rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, (4)
expand Medicaid to the near-poor, (5) enable low-wage workers to
unionize, (6) rehire all the teachers, social workers, police, and other
public service employees who were laid off in the recession, (7) exempt
the first $20,000 of income from Social Security payroll taxes and make
up the difference by removing the cap on income subject to the tax.
http://www.nationofchange.org/today-s-lousy-jobs-report-and-scourge-inequality-1389454923
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