Get America Working! is a non-profit national organization whose mission is to create 70 million jobs through structural changes in the U.S. economy.

With more good jobs available, many of the country's most significant social ills will be greatly diminished. We will see less crime and violence, fewer disengaged young people, less drug use, and a healthier population overall. Furthermore, the country will experience sustained, substantial, and faster economic growth; the environment will benefit greatly; and a larger tax base, combined with lessened dependency and social dysfunction, will allow tax rates to fall.

A Message from Chairman Bill Drayton
Welcome to Get America Working! With more than 15 million Americans "officially" unemployed and tens of millions more who would seek jobs if they were more readily available, the time has come for a national debate about job creation and how we get to fuller employment.

A new special issue of MIT Press’s Innovations Journal on energy and climate solutions features an essay by Bill Drayton -- “Engage People, Retire Things”  -- explaining the profound connection between combating the employment crisis and fighting climate change. 

For a short summary of why creating jobs is critical to the fight against climate change, see Bill Drayton's Huffington Post blog.

The New Yorker on GAW!'s proposal
Hendrik Hertzberg's commentary focuses on GAW!'s proposal for cutting payroll taxes and replacing the revenue with taxes on "things that, unlike jobs, we want less rather than more of" such as pollution and energy waste. Of GAW!'s advocacy over the past 20 years, he writes, "It’s ambitious, it jumbles ideological and partisan preconceptions, and it represents the kind of change that great crises open political space for.

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