Issue Position: Job Creation

Issue Position

It's time to focus on poverty and rebuild the economy with family-sustaining jobs so people can afford to live in Monroe County. Currently 1 in 7 people in Monroe County lives in poverty. We can fix this by creating jobs with family-sustaining wages, imposing a realistic severance tax on shale-gas, raising the state minimum wage, and fighting the Republicans on HB 796 and HB 665, bills designed to undermine the existing prevailing wage law in Pennsylvania.

When workers in Monroe County make a family-sustaining wage it doesn't just benefit them. If more of our workers made a family-sustaining wage there would be more families in Monroe County with extra money to spend which means booming local businesses and a broader, more reliable tax base.

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