to Obama – Jobs and The Economy plan outline

Greening Jobs
        Federal and State Departments for employing people directly
                For centralized services mainly
                Track everything to measure success
        Loans, Tax Breaks, Grants, and Contracts for companies/people
                For individuals and small regions
                Guard against monopolies
        Job Categories
                Research – reviving old tech and finding new tech
                Design – making what is built the best it can be
                        Non-toxic fabrication methods
                        Recyclable materials
                        Power/battery efficiency
                Construction – manufacturing and building new solutions
                Installation – putting new solutions directly into use
                Retrofitting – replace innards with green tech, melt/recycle old tech
                Maintenance – keeping centralized, business, and home solutions running
                Trade – exporting services, technology, and equipment internationally
        Job Industries
                Power Generation from Wind, Solar, Thermal, and Tidal
                        Dual focus on centralized and home/business generators
                                Decentralization reduces transmission waste
                        Australian Power Tower Design
                        Cut subsidies for toxic dig & burn sources
                                coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear
                        Cut subsidies for ethanol crops
                New Power Storage
                        Hyper-efficient batteries
                        Hydrogen Fuel Cells
                        Flywheels
                        Rain Collection
                Electric Transportation
                        Bikes, Scooters, Cars, Trucks, Busses, Trains
                        Focus on fully Electric Vehicles
                        Power management intelligence
                        Retrofitting used cars with new fuel/engines
                        Cut subsidies for gas, diesel, and ethanol vehicles
                Carbon Neutral Building
                        Green Materials
                        Energy Efficiency
                        Water conservation
                        Green Roofing
                                Grass, Garden, Function (rain to power conv.)
                Water Purification
                        “Amphitheater” and other designs
                        Reduce waterway contamination
                                from farmland, industrial, and residential waste water
                                renegotiate/enforce pollution agreements
                Greener General Consumer Goods
                        electronics, clothing, furniture, etc.
        Organization and Transparency
                Invest in transparency network for governmental funding tracking
                Fund a universal citizen participation network
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Education Jobs
        Grade School
                Federally fund public schools
                        Boost teacher salaries
                        Reduce administrator salaries
                        Reduce class sizes
                                Build more schools
                                        150 students max
                        Replace outdated materials
                        Develop admin software to reduce waste/corruption
                        Broaden subjects taught
                Increase support staff for students
                        Shift style from industrial-lecture to “coaching” model
                        Create more types of counselors
                                for students
                                for teachers
                        Focus on participation instead of assessment
                        Mandate paid leave for parents to participate certain days a week
                Regulate out corporate influence
                Increase food self-sufficiency
                        school gardens, cooking, and nutrition
        College and University
                Increase subsidies
                        Encourage lower tuitions
                        Offset textbook costs
                Increase financial transparency
                Reduce administrator pay
                Increase instructor and assistant pay
                Federal grants for more domestic students
                Reduce interest rates for student loans
                Build additional colleges
                Promote continuing education
        Trade School
                Validate/Accredit certifications
                Build some federal trade schools for industries in this outline
        Adult School
                Fund night-time working family education
                        Community promotions
                        Modernize courses
                        Increase teacher pay
        Free School (“teach-in”)
                Subsidy funding
                Promotion grants
                Certification and accreditation
        Prison and Jail Schools
                Create one or more in every jail and prison
                        both state and privatized
                Fund and manage separately from prison/jail budget
        Textbook publishing
                Research and Develop electronic materials technology
                Encourage younger authors to publish
                Re-assess copyright law to make developing coursework easier/cheaper
                

Agriculture
        Break up and auction off farming conglomerates
                Fund small farmer buy-back programs
        Subsidize smaller and independent farms
        Encourage more employment and less equipment
        Research and Educate for best practices
                Encourage systems-based “grass farming” approach
                        Organic growing
                        Locally consumed
                        Humane livestock conditions and waste management
                        Increased crop/breed diversity
                Gather and compile local/cultural wisdom
                Employ ex-farmers as educators
                Ban genetically modified food and open-air testing
                Tax sale of nonreproducible hybrid seeds heavily
        Create subsidies/policies for decentralized farming
                Urban gardens
                        Commercial building roof gardens
                        “pea patch” community gardens
                Organize farmers markets
                Organize/assist CSA programs
                Create a federal farmworker job type
                Create federal farming exchange programs
                        land owners open specific acres for outside farmers to grow on
                Expire patents on all “living systems”

Healthcare
        Grow Medicare jobs and eligibility to replace Insurance for all ages
                Treat all citizens automatically for basic care
                        consider most women’s treatments as basic care
                Treat immigrants and foreigners with some conditions and charges
                Normalize practitioner salaries for basic care
                Offset cost of “optional” medical care with federal funding
                        Working class pays moderate amount
                        Rich pay more
        Set up little state run clinics in communities without nearby hospitals
                mobile and in unoccupied buildings
        Develop open source tools for medical information management
        Provide incentives for doctors and nurses to return to general practice
        Ban Insurance companies from healthcare
                Liquidate assets of healthcare portions of insurance companies
                Replace with loans/savings programs for costly optional treatments

Employment Quality
        Streamline federal employment hiring procedures
        Cap executive pay maximums
        Raise minimum wage
        Increase vacation time
        Increase national holidays
        Reduce weekly hour maximums
        Regulate against “crunch times”
        Create incentives for co-op style businesses
                Everyone is paid the same
                Everyone has a vote for important decisions
        Encourage “monkeysphere”-aware organization sizes
        Ensure new programs reach the most marginalized populations
                American indian, african american, latin american, immigrant