Bernie Sanders:Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

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Nearly two dozen senators on Thursday said job creation should be the top priority of a new congressional super committee. Sen. Bernie Sanders and 22 other senators said reviving the U.S. economy and putting Americans back to work is the best way to reduce red ink in the federal budget. "Targeted investments in economic growth and job creation can complement and even enhance long-term deficit reduction efforts and should be a priority," the senators wrote. Their letter urged the 12 senators and representatives on the new deficit-cutting panel to make jobs their main focus. "Let us be very clear: our fiscal challenge is directly linked to the jobs crisis and we cannot solve the former without tackling the latter," the senators said.

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The full text of the letter follows:

Given that the single best deficit reduction strategy is economic growth, we urge you to ensure that your appointees to the new joint select committee ("JSC") created by the debt limit bill are committed to a policy of job creation.

The recent spate of discouraging economic news underscores the need to make employment the top priority of our government. For families across the country, the biggest economic problem is high unemployment. As you know, the lack of jobs and anemic growth rate of the economy are not only enormous problems in their own right, causing great pain for millions of Americans, they are a major component of our deficit. Indeed, the loss of revenue resulting from the recession accounts for nearly $4 trillion of the projected deficits over the next 10 years.

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