ade our nation’s roads, bridges, and other basic infrastructure: 18,000 new JOBS for every $1 billion invested.2. Launch a rehab-to-rent program to turn tens of THOUSANDS of government-owned foreclosed homes into affordable rental housing, stabilize neighborhoods, and put construction workers back on the job: 20,000 new jobs a year.3. Implement new EPA rules governing toxic emissions from power plants: 40,000 new direct jobs.4. Protect health care reform, which will reduce health insurance premiums, expand coverage, and create jobs: 250,000 to 400,000 new jobs a year for the next decade.5. Retrofit for energy efficiency just 40 percent of the nation’s residential and commercial building stock and unleash massive demand for DOMESTIC labor: more than 625,000 new jobs over a decade.6. Extend emergency unemployment benefits to long-term unemployed workers hurt by the economic downturn: more than 700,000 jobs.7. Expand the payroll tax cut for employees and extend it to employers through 2012: more than 1 million jobs.8. Extend national service programs to provide young people with full-time positions in AmeriCorps, VISTA, YouthBuild, and the youth service and conservation corps: 60,000 new jobs.9. Pass Home Star, Building Star, and Rural Star legislation to make homes and buildings energy efficient while supporting the hard-hit construction industry: 250,000 new jobs a year.10. Reduce the nation’s dropout rate by HALF to add $9.6 billion in economic growth and $713 million in increased tax REVENUE: 54,000 new jobs