Jobs? What Kind of Jobs Can We Create In A Year?

[BeFree]

Housing is a huge creator of jobs.

Alternative fuels would be smart.

More in the Medical fields...... what else?

What job program could your district begin now that would put people back to work for a living wage?

[Bluebear]

1. Renovating old public buildings, bridges, airports...

[BeFree]

3. True

I am thinking it might be jobs that would produce a greater return. By creating other jobs.

New trains were in the stimulus but those are years long projects.

Insulating and solar power on public buildings would go along way fast and that was in the 2009 stimulus too.

[Waiting For Everyman]

2. I'll bet the Census Dept. could staff a lot of jobs fast - it's what they do.

They could use their same template and training, and direct it all very well. Plus, they have background in every local area. They could do a kick-ass WPA project, and very fast.

They're good at the set it up, do it, break it down, kind of operation.

[rucky]

4. I'm thinking clearing the backlog at the patent office...

will deliver the most bang for the buck.

[theophilus]

5. F.A.S.T. Fix America's Schools Today! Google it. It could really help quickly. n/t

[FrodosPet]

6. Bug squishers and weed pullers

This may strike some as a joke, but it is not.

Instead of continuing to poison the food and water supply with pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, why don't we fill the farm fields with workers to manually remove the pests, weeds, and diseased plants?

The "downside"? Healthier food and less profit for the agricultural chemical makers.

[nashville_brook]

7. teachers.