BECAUSE ONLY CONSERVATIVE BUDGET PLANS GET NATIONAL COVERAGE

(h/t digby)

Here are the highlights of  the "Better Off Budget" by the Congressional Progressive Caucus:
MAKING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BETTER OFF

Creating Good Jobs – creates 8.8 million jobs by 2017.
- Long-term Unemployed – provides access to training and employment services to match employee potential with employer demand.
- Infrastructure – creates jobs in building and construction industries to repair and
modernize our ailing roads, bridges and water infrastructure.
- State Aid – provides assistance to states to allow them to hire and rehire public employees such as police, firefighters and health care workers.
- Public Works and Education – a direct hire program that includes seven jobs corps to hire physicians, students, construction and community workers and an education program boost to hire more teachers and improve schools.
- Reversing Harmful Cuts – repeals the Budget Control Act and Sequester, restores Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, restores unemployment insurance, fully funds the Prevention and Public Health Fund, and ends the federal worker pay freeze.
- Equity for Women and People of Color – enhances federal programs targeted at creating equity and improving outcomes for women, people of color, and their families.
- Protecting Veterans and Workers through Retirement –adopts a cost-of-living adjustment that takes into account realistic retiree expenses and fully funds veterans programs in advance.

If you want the details, go here.