"The Get America Working! approach would work, in effect, by correcting a major price distortion. The current U.S. Internal Revenue Code taxes employment far more heavily than it does the use of natural resources. This distortion has grown progressively worse as payroll taxes have grown. Revising this distortion would increase employment, equity and overall economic vigor importantly. And it would do so by responding to market price signals, not through clumsy and expensive government interventions."
Time For Change: Reframing the Conversation on Energy and Climate
Date:
Tue, 11/17/2009
Source:
Innovations Journal
Innovations, a Journal of Technolgy, Governance and Globilization is hosting a major event in Washingon, DC to launch its special eition on Energy and Climate. The event will be held Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm with a reception to follow. The venue is the National Academ of Sciences. White House Science Advisor John Holdren is giving the keynote address. Bill Drayton, Chair of Get America Working and founder of Ashoka, will join other authors and experts for a timely program discussing U.S. and international policy on economics, energy and climate. For the full REVISED prgram agenda of Time for Change click here. (Note the agenda was revised Nov. 21.) To RSVP for the event click here.
Bill Drayton's article, Engage People; Retire Things, focuses on the linkage between the two growing problems of unemployment and climate change. He suggests structural changes that can address both critical issues.
