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A Vision or Economic Renewal:An American Jobs Agenda

—THE—

TASK FORCE

ON JOB CREATION

JULY 2011

LETTER FROMTHE CHAIRMEN

This report shows a lot o big numbers with a lot o bad news. It is aboutglobalization out o control, people without work, jobs lost to competitorsoverseas, a drop in manuacturing, unemployed youth withno options, America losing its technological edge.It is a sad stew o overwhelming acts that can be hard to conront.But conront them we must.Behind every indierent statistic is a husband, wie, daughter, mother,sister, riend, neighbor or ellow American in trouble. There are manyo them, and each has a tale o deprivation or loss that needs to be heard.President Franklin D. Roosevelt understood this when he told Congressand the nation in his nal State o the Union Address, “We cannot becontent, no matter how high the general standard o living may be, i some raction o our people—whether it be one-third or one-th or one-tenth—is ill-ed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.” He recognized thatthe economic challenges the nation aced during the Great Depressionwere playing out in the lives o ordinary Americans all across the country.President Roosevelt understood that his duty and that o governmentwas to replace the insecurity and ear and hopelessness that hadrightly gripped the population with palpable reasons or hope. He knewthat Americans needed protections and employment and security.Our national leaders today need to think about the good people in ourcountry who ace the same ears and who need the same assurances.We need our Executive branch and Congressional leaders in Washingtontoday, just as we needed them then, to help steer this nation to asaer harbor.Please accept this report, and our recommendations or immediate action. Sincerely,Leo Gerard and Leo Hindery, Jr