Get America Working

Get America Working! is a non-profit national organization whose mission is to create 40 million jobs through structural changes in the U.S. economy.

Job Creation Tax Options - Summary

The GAW! study of job-creating tax options, including 26 available alternative taxes and tax expenditure reductions that offer a wide range of political choice and could be used to pay for payroll tax cuts, enabling elimination of payroll taxation without losing revenue. At modest rates, these alternatives could generate about twice the revenue currently generated by payroll taxes.

Engage People, Retire Things

Bill Drayton argues we don't have to choose between going off the debt cliff or accepting sky-high structural unemployment. Payroll tax shifting offers another choice: to create the jobs we need now without increasing taxes, debt or deficits.

Creating jobs is critical to the fight against climate change

To learn why creating jobs -- and not only green jobs -- is critical to the fight against climate change, see Bill Drayton's Huffington Post blog and this MIT Press Innovations Journal article.

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.
April 13, 2013
New York Times
Editors Note: Fordham University Law Professor Linda Sugin makes a strong case for the regressive nature of the payroll tax (PRT), calling it the "furtive tax" since unlike income taxes which taxpayers need to submit by April 15, PRTs are deducted automatically from workers' paychecks. One point we...
February 13, 2013
Washington Post
Rob Shapiro, an advisor to Get America Working, documents the trend of jobles recoveries and the importance to business of reducing costs of employing people stating "...the best approach would be to directly reduce the cost for business to create more jobs. Congress could, for example,...
February 13, 2013
Washington Post
Editor's Note:  In this piece the Post's Economic Policy Correspondent makes the point that we are experiencing a change in our economy -- a series of jobless recoveries. Economists don't have a clear answer for why this change is happening. GAW economic adviser Rob Shapiro is quoted near the...

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November 17, 2009
"Engage People, Retire Things" Explains the Connection Between Unemployment and Climate Change, and How to Get the Jobs/Climate Synergy Working Positively William Drayton, board chair of the fuller employment policy group Get America Working!, and founder and CEO of...

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