Putting Workers Back on The Job While Rebuilding and Modernizing America

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Putting Workers Back On The Job While Rebuilding And Modernizing America

Offering tax credits to encourage businesses to hire unemployed veterans. Businesses that hire veterans who have been unemployed six months or longer would receive a tax credit up to $5,600, and that credit rises to $9,600 for veterans who also have service-connected disabilities.

Preventing up to 280,000 teacher layoffs, and keeping first responders including firefighters and police officers on the job.

Modernizing at least 35,000 public schools across the country, supporting new science labs, Internet- ready classrooms and school renovations in both rural and urban communities, putting hundreds of thousands of Americans back to work.

Making immediate investments in infrastructure, modernizing our roads, railways and airports, putting hundreds of thousands of workers back on the job.

Project Rebuild: an effort to put people back to work rehabilitating homes and businesses and stabilizing communities, leveraging private capital and scaling up successful models of public-private collaboration.

Expanding wireless internet access to 98 percent of Americans and first responders by freeing up the nation's spectrum.

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