WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the midst of a historic Presidential Inauguration, more than 250 of the nation’s mayors, led by U.S. Conference of Mayors President Miami, Florida Mayor Manny Diaz, will convene for the 77th Winter Meeting of The U.S. Conference of Mayors on Saturday, January 17-Monday, January 19, at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Highlighting the three-day session will be the release of the latest in a series of Ready-to-Go Jobs Reports, which inventories infrastructure projects from cities around the country that could create jobs quickly and improve the basic infrastructure of cities and metropolitan regions with federal investment.
Mayors will also release a report that forecasts possible job losses for 2009 by the 363 individual metropolitan economies, which includes some areas that may not see any new job growth for an entire decade.
With over 85% of people in the United States living in our nation’s cities and metro areas who are increasingly concerned with the state of America’s economy, Mayors believe their MainStreet Economic Recovery plan responds to President-Elect Obama’s goal of creating millions of new jobs to spur the national economy.
Obama Cabinet Officials, White House staff, key Congressional Committee Chairs, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) and CA Governor Schwarzenegger have been invited. President Bill Clinton, National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial, T. Boone Pickens, and George Soros of the Open Society Institute are all slated to address the mayors on Monday, January 19.
