If you do, it's clear that jobs - not cuts - are our our nation's most pressing emergency. But you'd never know it by the budget-slashing, job-killing frenzy taking place in Congress these days.
Today, America's infrastructure is crumbling and millions of people are out of work. Yet some members of Congress are opposing President Obama's proposal to rebuild America even though it's fully paid for. We've got an idea to really bring this problem home to members of Congress.
The proposal: to actually show members of Congress the state of disrepair in their own districts.
We plan to send Congress photos of all the crumbling roads and bridges, overcrowded classrooms and clinics, and rundown schools in our communities and we've teamed up with other community, labor and advocacy groups to collect these photos on WorkThatNeedsDoing.org. Currently, the site sports over 400 projects across all 50 states. And the more photos we post, the bigger the impression we'll make when we deliver a compilation of your pictures to Representatives to powerfully remind them and the public of all the ways our communities could be improved if we put the millions of people who are unemployed back to work. And we need your help if we're really going to make a difference.
Can you take a picture of a job that needs doing in your community?
It could be a bridge, dam, road, school, levee, or any other piece of our infrastructure that needs repair. For example, maybe there's a heavily used bridge in your community that looks like it's about to fall down. Like the one in Gloucester, Massachusetts that isn't just rusted, but looks like it's been moth-eaten.
Congress should act now to put America back to work meeting our infrastructure, education, healthcare, and clean energy needs - and leave our safety net and retirement security intact. Not only will it give the middle class a desperately-needed boost, but it's the only way to reduce the deficit in the long run.
We've got to everything we can to make Congress get the big picture: It's time to put America back to work on the WORK THAT NEEDS DOING. Share work that needs doing in your community at WorkThatNeedsDoing.org.
