Pryor touts National Jobs Day

U.S. Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) today introduced a Senate Resolution to promote a private-sector hiring campaign that designates November 1st as National Jobs Day.

Pryor said the legislation designates November 1, 2011 as National Jobs Day. On this day, businesses and corporations are encouraged to kick-start the economy by hiring at least one unemployed individual. Pryor credits Jerry Jones, an executive with Little Rock-based Acxiom for the initiative. Jones and other business leaders have formed uhireU.S. in an effort to rally the American business community to provide jobs that will stimulate the economy.

“The business community will lead America out of this recession by out-innovating its global competitors, but government can help by laying the groundwork. National Jobs Day is gaining traction, and I’m proud to lend my full support to this initiative,” Pryor said. “For each person hired, we subtract one individual from the unemployment rolls, and add one more person paying taxes and spending their paycheck on bills and goods,” Pryor said.

“The backbones of our economy are the million plus US businesses with 50 or more employees.” said Jerry Jones, a business thought leader and Chief Legal Officer of Acxiom Corporation. “If we act in our mutual interest hiring at least one unemployed person by Thanksgiving, we can get the economy on a much better track. Our goal is for over a million people to become employed by the end of November, bringing much needed relief and joy to American homes as well as creating greater demand for goods and services.”

The naming of November 1st as National Jobs Day was also announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) conference in New York by uhireU.S. In addition to private sector organizations, Arkansans Wesley Clark, Mack McLarty and Rodney Slater are supporting the campaign.