Can good jobs be created in America?  We did it before.  We can do it again if we are willing to unite.  Moving from a recession to prosperity is undermined in a divided America.  If we swallow our pride, set aside political differences, and rally behind the "Make it in America" initiative, we can establish the political will for creating good jobs in America.  ...more

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House Democratic Leaders are strongly backing the "Make It In America" jobs initiative. The "Make It In America" national manufacturing strategy includes the following goals to create the high-skill, high-wage jobs of the future— promoting American competitiveness, innovation, and exports:

  • Close tax loopholes that encourage outsourcing U.S. jobs overseas.
  • Provide hometown tax credits to help small businesses hire new employees and sell their products and innovation overseas.
  • Boost incentives to create American clean energy jobs like making state-of-the-art wind turbines and solar panels­paid for by ending corporate welfare to Big Oil.
  • Strengthen rules that U.S. and its contractors buy American, especially to build transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure.
  • Demand that China and other countries to honor fair trade principles or lose American business.
  • Give incentives to hire and retrain America’s returning veterans for new clean energy jobs.
  • Strengthen partnerships with businesses to retrain America’s workers for jobs of the future.

Center for American Progress Action Fund
Making It in America
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Discusses Job Creation at CAP Action Fund Event
July 26, 2010

  
  

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