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We, the undersigned Americans, demand that the White House and Congress take immediate action to create
NEW JOBS NOW! We must put Americans back to work.
We want NEW JOBS NOW!!!!
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I have been out of work 10 months as a University Reserach Administrator in Illinois…once my professor retired 3 years ago, I have been bouncing around…last one in & first one to go. I finally had it and decided to pursue a different profession: nursing. Last week, I was told by a hiring director at a local university hospital that for every one nursing position, there are 50 applicants…however, there was a shortage of physical therapists and occupational therapists…jobs that used to require only a BA but recent trends have indicated that these occupations, PT & OT, have upped the ante, that there are no programs at the AS level…only the Masters or Doctorate level. Hello! Congress, please update your figures & put money into professions that have shortages and are actually do-able for retraining adults. Get moving, Congress, we are drowning!
Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy careers do in most cases require an advanced degree. However in illilnois there are nine (9) higher ecucation institutions that offer an AS degree as a Physical Therapy Assistant and ten (10) institutions that offer an AS degree as an Occupational Therapy Assistant. This web page from CareerOneStop. which is sponsored by the U. S. Department of Labor, can be used to find a list of these institutions: http://www.careerinfonet.org/edutraining/
Job-creation is our nation’s top dilemna; the recession will not be “over” until this administration stops scaring big and small businesses alike, with the threat of rising debt, a barrage of new and higher taxes, “regulation” in the form of energy taxes, forced expansion of benefits, and an endless barrage of new bureaucracies and red tape.
The best thing that government could do to stimulate jobs would be to “undo” the obstacles they’ve already put before businesses, and get out of the way of the free market.
Bless you, Robin Ryan; your new book “Over 40 & You’re Hired!” and this petition to congress — will do more for America’s unemployed than all of the new regulations and “help” that the pettifogging bureaucrats have provided so far, to the tune of 10% unemployment!
I join my voice to the following commentary that was on CNN.com, December 4, 2009, from Amy M. Wilkinson, a Senior Fellow at Harvard University Center for Business and Government and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She reiterated about the importance of entrepreneurs to the recovery of the American economy. Everyone should pay attention. Her commentary, in part, is:
Job creation? Look to entrepreneurs
Thursday (December 3, 2009), the White House convened CEOs from companies such as Boeing, AT&T, Comcast and Dow Corning, top leaders of the United Steelworkers, United Food and Commercial Workers, American Federation of Teachers unions, Ivy League academics and a few small-business representatives to brainstorm how the country might generate much-needed jobs.
A schmooze-fest is nice, but the hard work of putting America back to work will be done by entrepreneurs, not the leaders of the biggest companies in the nation and the heads of big unions.
The mom-and-pop shops, garage start-ups and small businesses across the country will put Americans back on the payroll. According to the Census Bureau, nearly all net job creation in the U.S. since 1980 has been generated by firms operating less than five years.
This means that our job generators are likely not on the White House guest list. They are home working long hours to meet payrolls on tight deadlines and scraping by with limited resources. While others can advocate for the merits of entrepreneurship, and will hopefully do so, our job creators are strangely left out.
Innovators from Oregon to Tennessee are the ones who will generate new jobs. Commerce Department data show that small companies represent 99.1 percent of all employer firms (a firm is an aggregation of all establishments owned by a parent company, even in multiple locations.). They pay nearly 45 percent of U.S. private payroll and have generated 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually over the past decade.
A few start-ups from the last century may be familiar: Disney, Burger King, Fed-Ex, CNN and Microsoft all started during a period of economic downturn. Today, each of these companies employs thousands of people in the U.S. and abroad.
Recent research shows that more than half of the 2009 Fortune 500 companies were launched during a recession or bear market. In 2002, when the tech bubble burst, I graduated from business school just a few miles from Google. The start-up was a mysterious algorithm-based business, little known and lesser understood. Today, Google employs 20,000 people worldwide.
So the question is how can we foster the next Google? Policy-makers can’t predict breakthrough technologies, but they can create an environment that will encourage innovation. How to start?
First, provide further access to capital. Last week, two Small Business Administration stimulus provisions that helped to get millions of dollars to small-business owners ran out of funding. The provisions, passed as part of the Recovery Act, raised the maximum guarantee on SBA loans to 90 percent and reduced or eliminated fees associated with the loans, making it more attractive for banks to lend during the downturn. Access to capital is the lifeblood of small businesses. We must renew these provisions and provide even greater access to credit. Helping fledgling companies grow fuels the economy from the bottom up.
Second, welcome immigrants who are job generators. We are a country of immigrants, and yet in recent years, we have made it incredibly difficult for immigrants to launch companies in the U.S. Why not create a new visa for entrepreneurs? Increasingly venture capitalists, angel investors and innovators are advocating a “start-up visa” offered to immigrant entrepreneurs who want to start a company in the United States. In 2008, nearly 40 percent of technology company founders were foreign-born; 52 percent of Silicon Valley company founders were foreign-born, including the founders of Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel, to name a few. Why chase these innovators away when we need jobs and should be hanging an “innovators wanted” sign on our front door?
Third, match funds for early investors. Early investors need incentives to put money behind companies that will create U.S. jobs. We have channeled billions of dollars to preserve “too big to fail” institutions. Why not make federal matching dollars available to catalyze smart investment in next generation businesses? Investors could keep their normal returns and a share of returns on federal matching funds could go back to the government to further revitalize our weakened economy. Instead of preserving outdated jobs, we need to fuel the creation of future employment prospects. Early-stage investors with a track record of success can help make this happen.
Obama came into office on an entrepreneurial platform. His campaign catalyzed involvement at the grassroots level. Tapping into new technologies such as YouTube, Facebook and other social networks, our president benefited from entrepreneurial advances.
It is time to stop propping up outmoded and over leveraged institutions and start betting on the new men and women who offer hope for greater prosperity. Supporting entrepreneurs is change we can believe in.
If you’re not listening now Congress you will be given your ‘pink slip’ November 2010, need I say more.