Jobs & The Economy: Putting America Back to Work
“The American Jobs Act answers the urgent need to create jobs right away. But we can’t stop there. We have to … start building an economy that lasts into the future — an economy that creates good, middle-class jobs that pay well and offer security… If we want [companies] to start here and stay here and hire here, we have to be able to out-build and out-educate and out-innovate every other country on Earth.”
A State-by-State Guide to the American Jobs Act
A State-by-State Guide to the American Jobs Act
Click on your state to learn how President Obama’s plan to create jobs and rebuild the American economy will impact schools, employment and infrastructure in your state.
The numbers in this map illustrate how people in each state would be impacted by the following four components of the American Jobs Act. Click to see what funds would be available in your state.
Tax Cuts to Help America’s Small Businesses Hire and Grow
- Firms Helped by Payroll Tax Cut
Putting Workers Back on the Job While Rebuilding and Modernizing America
- Highway and Transit Infrastructure – the American Jobs Act includes $50 billion in immediate investments for highways, transit, rail and aviation
- Educator Jobs – the President is proposing to invest $35 billion to prevent layoffs of up to 280,000 teachers
- School Infrastructure -- $25 billion investment to modernize at least 35,000 public schools across the country, which will create jobs, while improving classrooms and upgrading our schools to meet 21st century needs
- NSP “Rebuild” -- $15 billion in funds to put construction workers on the job revitalizing and refurbishing vacant and foreclosed homes and businesses
- Funds for community colleges will invest $5 billion in modernizing community colleges and ensure they have the facilities and equipment to address current workforce demands in today’s highly technical and growing fields
Pathways Back to Work
- The President is proposing sweeping reforms to the unemployment insurance (UI) system to help those without jobs transition to the workplace. Long term unemployed back to work refers to the number of people who will be affected by these reforms
- The American Jobs Act would extend unemployment insurance
- The Pathways Back to Work Fund would provide low-income youth and adults with opportunities to work and to achieve needed training in growth Industries
Tax Relief for Every American Worker and Family
- The American Jobs Act will expand the payroll tax cut passed last December by cutting workers payroll taxes in half next year
