PA Jobs

By Tony Crocamo

In 2010 PA had the 7th best job growth rate in the nation. PA is now 47th. A balanced approach to job creation, including employee training, hiring incentives for employers, and public-private partnerships for economic growth, is needed.

Capital and labor depend on each other for each other's economic health. A one-sided approach to jobs growth--tax breaks to corporations--is a failed policy that does not create jobs.

A government that works for you will:

• Create tax breaks for firms that create jobs by hiring new employees

• Encourage investment in new technologies. Encourage innovation through cooperation between business, industry, and the state's universities and colleges

• Lower the corporate tax rate and close corporate tax loopholes, including the Delaware loophole that allows 70% of companies that do business in PA not to pay corporate net income taxes

• End corporate welfare for firms that neither deserve nor need taxpayer supported subsidies

• Promote tax breaks for firms that:
  - Hire new employees
  - Offer equal pay for equal work
  - Buy PA products
  - Provide premium benefit packages to attract employees to PA
  - Are good corporate citizens