October 7, 2010
For Immediate Release
Contact: Pam Parson - 717.319.1483

Phyllis Bennett, candidate for State Representative in PA District 106 announced her job creation strategy today. The strategy for job creation in Pennsylvania was summarized in the following statement:

In order to maximize its opportunity to create jobs, the Legislature must work in a bi-partisan manner with a commitment to make decisions that will engender economic growth in Pennsylvania’s economy.  This is not the time for partisanship; this is a time when we must work together to form partnerships and develop ideas that work for the betterment of all.  PA must make business taxes competitive with other states, create tax credits and incentives for small businesses that create jobs at home; develop tax incentives for corporations who keep jobs at home.  This would also stimulate corporations to bring jobs back home, thus reversing the outsourcing trend. Let's face it, the only reason to eliminate a job or to send it out of our state is economics.  If we make it economically viable for companies to keep workers working, jobs will not only be created, they will remain here and return here. We must create an attractive atmosphere to ensure that opportunity stays in Pennsylvania.

In addition, we need to:
1) ensure that our workers and our students have the opportunity to be trained in modern technological methodology;
2) the state needs to invest in clean energy- jobs, investing in wind, solar, geothermal and other clean energy technology that will create new jobs now and long into the future;
3) increase funding for Minority and small business programs that will provide and promote entrepreneurial skills;
4) encourage local banks and lending institutions to invest in small businesses by creating successful loan guarantee programs involving capital lending that is needed to expand and create new jobs;
5) continue to expand programs that will improve our state infrastructure in conjunction with Federal assistance: new and improved roads, bridges, railways, and schools ensuring a competitive edge.
6) create a dialogue to bring about new and innovative ideas in a forum involving our best minds.

More on the Bennett Job Creation Strategy:

We need to ensure that our workers and our students have the opportunity to be trained in modern technological methodology.  The technology and alternative energy sectors of the economy have unlimited opportunity to create jobs.  As well, technological advancements create new processes and result in a trickle-down effect, which in itself creates new jobs. The state needs to invest in clean energy- jobs.  There is a wealth of growth available by investing in wind, solar, geothermal and other clean energy technology that will create new jobs now and long into the future.

The State needs to increase funding for Minority and small business programs that will provide and promote entrepreneurial skills from training that would make more skilled workers available to meet the needs of our local economy. All too often, jobs leave the area because the area can't provide the expertise meet the need.  We must invest in training in order to enable those who have lost employment to re-tool their abilities toward new opportunity.

We must encourage local banks and lending institutions to investment in small businesses with loan guarantee programs involving capital lending that is needed to expand and create jobs. Since banks are not able to risk the capital that would put workers back to work, the State must shoulder that risk; a risk that will be less costly in the long run than is unemployment benefits in the short run.
 
We need to continue to expand programs that will improve our state infrastructure in conjunction with Federal assistance:  new and improved roads, bridges, railways, and schools will not only create jobs, they will ensure that businesses and people maintain a competitive edge.

Create a dialogue to bring about new and innovative ideas.  We have not faced a difficult economy like our current state since the great depression.  Unusual circumstance demands that we put the best minds in the same room and develop new ideas to deal with our new environment.  Form a Public/Private Venture Partnerships and work through the community, bringing employers, job seekers, youth, educators, labor groups and other nonprofits together to find—and fund—solutions to workforce gaps.

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