Since this Great Recession started, we've lost more than 8 million jobs—when we needed to create 2 million just to keep up with population growth. So we're more than 10 million jobs in the hole, and that's a big hole to climb out of.

What has America's jobs crisis meant to you? How will we solve it? What are you doing to mobilize working people to make this economy work again?

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