Read the answers to yesterday's How’s your American Jobs IQ? post below then tell Congressional House and
Senate Republicans to pass President Obama’s American Jobs Act now! The Act must
pass Congress in order to become law and THEY know it!
ANSWERS…
1. What is the purpose of the American Jobs Act?
The purpose of the American Jobs Act is to “put more people
back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans.”
2. Can President Obama enforce the American Jobs Act without Congress?
No!
3. When did President Obama, first, introduce the American Jobs Act to
Congress?
At his State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of Congress on September 8, 2011.
4. What was the Republican majority House of Representative’s response
to the President’s American Jobs Act?
Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House
Speaker John Boehner announced that they would NOT allow the Act to come to the
floor of the House for a vote.
5. What was Senate Republicans’ response to the American Jobs Act?
Republican Senators SILENTLY filibustered the Act blocking
it from coming to a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
6. What provisions in the American Jobs Act will promote job creation?
A new “Project Rebuild” which will put people to work
rehabilitating homes, businesses and communities; job opportunities for
low-income youth and adults through a fund for successful approaches for
subsidized employment; innovative training programs and summer/year-round jobs
for youth; modernizing over 35,000 schools from science labs and internet-ready
classrooms to renovated facilities; $50 billion in immediate investments for
highways, transit, rail and aviation, helping to modernize an infrastructure
that now receives a grade of “D” from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and
putting hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job.
7. What provisions in the American Jobs Act will prevent layoffs?
The President proposed to invest $35 billion to prevent
layoffs of up to 280,000 teachers, while supporting the hiring of tens of
thousands more and keeping cops and firefighters on the job.
8. What provisions in the American Jobs Act will assist long-term unemployed
Americans?
Instituting the “Bridge to Work “ program which will build
and improve innovative state programs where those displaced take temporary,
voluntary work or pursue on-the-job training; reemployment assistance to design
more rigorous reemployment services for the long-term unemployed and to conduct
assessments to review the longest-term claimants of unemployment insurance to
assess their eligibility and help them develop a work-search plan; provide
additional funds to allow states to introduce new programs aimed at long-term
unemployed workers; states will be able to seek waivers from the Secretary of
Labor to implement other innovative reforms to connect the long-term unemployed
to work opportunities.
9. What provisions in the American
Jobs Act will relieve middle class tax
burdens?
Expanding the 2011 payroll tax cut to cut workers’ payroll
taxes in half in 2012 – providing a $1,500 tax cut to the typical American
family without negatively impacting the Social Security Trust Fund; cutting the
payroll tax cuts in half for the first $5 million in wages; temporarily
eliminating employer payroll taxes on wages for new workers or raises for
existing workers.
10. What provisions in the American Jobs Act will assist unemployed veterans?
A “Returning Heroes Tax Credit” of up to $5,600 for hiring
unemployed veterans who have been looking for a job for more than six months.
11. What provisions in the American Jobs Act will provide tax relief
for small businesses?
Administrative, regulatory and legislative measures to help small firms start and expand;
comprehensive patent reform to increase guarantees for bonds to help small
businesses compete for infrastructure projects and remove burdensome,
withholding requirements that keep capital out of the hands of job creators.
12. How will the American Jobs Act protect unemployment insurance
benefits?
Unemployment insurance will be extended to prevent 5 million
Americans looking for work from losing their benefits; implementing “Work Sharing” unemployment insurance for workers whose
employers choose work-sharing over layoffs.
SOURCES:
House GOP refuses jobs vote, but triples
taxpayer funding to anti-gay lawyer
http://www.examiner.com/article/house-gop-refuses-jobs-vote-but-triples-taxpayer-funding-to-anti-gay-lawyerSenate Republican Successfully Filibuster American Jobs
GOP Goes On Record Against Jobs Again
http://thinkprogress.org/progress-report/gop-goes-on-record-against-jobs-again/
Official Submission of American Jobs Act to Congress by President Obama
Fact
Sheet: The American Jobs Act
What’s in the American Jobs Act
(dailykoz.com)
American Jobs Act: Read the Details
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