Issue Position: Bring Back American Jobs

Issue Position

It has taken four years of steady growth just to recover the nine million jobs lost during the recent recession. With the unemployment rate at 6.7% and too many Houstonians still left out of the workforce, there is more which must be done to get America back to work. This includes targeted tax cuts for small businesses, innovative unemployment insurance reform, making the payroll tax cut permanent, and preventing the layoff of teachers, police, firefighters and other essential public servants.

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