NUNNELEE: Growing new jobs remains key in claiming an economic recovery
It’s all about jobs. As summer officially begins, the most important issue facing Mississippi is jobs. Unemployment numbers are languishing at 10.3 percent in Mississippi and 9.1 percent nationally – the longest period of sustained high employment since the Great Depression. The economy grew at a weak 1.8 percent last quarter, and economists agree that the costly stimulus failed to create jobs and only prolonged our economic recession.
When Americans needed a jobs plan, President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress gave them a spending plan. Now, after the historic November election, House Republicans have rolled out a plan for America’s job creators that will empower small business owners by reducing regulatory burdens, fixing the tax code, maximizing American energy production and paying down America’s unsustainable debt burden so that Washington, D.C., finally lives within its means.
NEMS360.com
ALAN NUNNELEE
6/27/11
Magnolia Tribune
