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U.S. MARITIME ADMINISTRATOR PHILLIPS FACES CHALLENGES TO U.S. SHIPBUILDING,MARINER SAFETY, U.S. FLAG SHIPPING & U.S. NAVAL SECURITY

NATIONAL SECURITY MULTI-MISSION VESSEL (PHOTO: U.S. MARITIME ADMINISTRATION) BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS In a far-ranging interview, Rear Admiral Ann C. Phillips, US Navy (Ret.), who was sworn in as the 20th Administrator for the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD), discussed challenges facing U.S. shipbuilding, mariner safety, maritime commerce and U.S. naval leadership...

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MARITIME JOBS CAMPAIGN FOCUS OF OCTOBER MARITIME EXECUTIVE FORUM

Maritime Executive Magazine is holding a forum in Baltimore, Maryland to win Congressional and public support for a major new investment in the U.S. maritime industry through a media campaign entitled “StrongShips for America,” which features a series of conferences leading up to the 2012 election. The publication focuses its efforts on a marine highway initiative designed to take truckloads off...

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JOBS CRISIS WILL WORSEN NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS WITH DEBT CEILING

Whatever the outcome of the debt ceiling confrontation between Congressional Republicans and President Obama, unemployment will be getting worse. The dismal June jobs data had already indicated that cuts in public spending were causing higher rates of unemployment among government workers. The impasse in Washington and the resulting spending cuts needed to seal an agreement on the debt ceiling...

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JOBS CRISIS NEEDS WORLD WAR II ECONOMIC MOBILIZATION

CONTACT: Stas Margaronis, publisher Rebuild The United States via email at stas@rbtus.com. The dismal jobs report saying 18,000 jobs were created in June with 13 million Americans out of work points to an inability by Congress and President Obama to tackle the long-term unemployment crisis, which needs a World War II type mobilization that created 18.5 million jobs between 1939-1944 and ended...

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Cutbacks May Hamper Mississippi Shipping & Shut Down Inland Waterway Projects in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky in 2012

Cutbacks May Hamper Mississippi Shipping & Shut Down Inland Waterway Projects in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky in 2012 By Stas Margaronis, RBTUS, May 2, 2011 Congressional and Obama Administration resistance to adequately funding key dams and locks along the Tennessee, Monongahela rivers plus inadequate dredging of  the  Mississippi river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge could cripple...

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THE AMERICAN JOBS CONTRACT: CREATING MILLIONS OF NEW JOBS

PROPOSED T0: PRESIDENT OBAMA, U.S. SENATORS & U.S. CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES     GET SERIOUS ABOUT JOBS! We, the American people, are suffering through the third year of an economic decline that has caused 24 million Americans to be without jobs or underemployed and we have had enough! We need our elected representatives to focus on the urgent need for new jobs, which is the...

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