Issue Position: Good Jobs. Good Wages

Issue Position

Bridget and her husband, Joe, have four children. In a few years they'll be graduating college and ready to enter the workforce. Bridget and Joe were lucky to be able to come back to Northeast PA after college and raise their family here. And they want their children and grandchildren to have the same options.

Our communities deserve good jobs at a good wage. We must make Northeast Pennsylvania a compelling and inviting place for small business owners to set up shop and for job-creating industry to take root.

This also means making a stronger commitment to public education and doing a better job to prepare our students to enter the workforce. After all, an educated community is a powerful community.

Bridget believes in providing tax incentives for small business owners who hire new workers. She believes that everyone should pay their fair share, but she also supports lowering the state's corporate net income tax rate (which at 9.9% is the second highest in the country) to lure businesses to our area and to enliven job creation.

Bridget believes in increasing the minimum wage because workers should not struggle to have their most basic needs met.

And Bridget firmly believes in pay equity for men and women. No woman should receive a fraction of the pay a man receives for doing the same job.

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