[CircleUp] Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth

[Heidi Davis]

Hi Everyone:

As you know, this Thursday, December 3, President Obama will host a
Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth here at the White House.  The purpose
of this discussion, and others like it, is to explore every possible
avenue for job creation and get ideas from small business owners and
CEOs, labor union representatives and financial experts, economists and
nonprofit leaders, and everyday Americans who have felt the impact of
this economic crisis firsthand.  

We would like to expand this conversation beyond the beltway and are
asking tribal official around the country to host your own community job
forum to make sure we hear directly from you and the residents in your
districts. These discussions - among neighbors, co-workers and friends -
will be a source of insights and ideas that will inform the President's
approach to job creation.  Ideally, we would ask that you host your
forum between Friday, December 4 and Friday, December 11.  At the end of
this timeframe we will compile the feedback from your forums into a
report that will be sent to the Oval Office for review so that President
Obama, Vice President Biden, and our senior economic team hear directly
from you and your residents.  In addition, we hope to host a call with a
senior official in the White House so you can speak directly to them
about the input and perspectives you received at these forums.  

If you are interested in hosting a forum either locally or jointly with
other tribes in your area, please email me at jgillette at who.eop.gov and
let me know.  In addition, we would like to ask all of you to click on
to the following link to register your forum so that we can provide you
background materials as well as information you can use to feed the
ideas you gather from these forums directly to the White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/webform/jobs-forum-form.  You will see a
special drop down box for state and local elected officials, please
select the "tribal official" section.    

We hope that all of you take this opportunity to share with the
President the perspectives and experiences that you and your
constituents have on this important issue.  

Please feel free to share this email with your colleagues.  

Sincerely yours,

 

Jodi Gillette

Office of Intergovernmental Affairs

The White House

202.456.4771 (o)

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