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“CREATING JOBS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Labor was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H8192 on Sept. 10, 2003.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
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CREATING JOBS
(Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, many of us will be paying tribute to those who lost their lives on 9-11. But I rise today to speak of the continuing plight of the unemployed in this Nation.
On this past Monday, I held an economic forum on the unemployed in my congressional district. Houston, Texas has an unemployment rate of 7.2 percent. It is in the top 5 States of the Nation. And the striking factor of that particular session was the pain of those chronically unemployed.
The very fact that the large corporations that have received these very enormous tax cuts by this administration has done nothing to retain jobs or to create jobs. It is imperative that we work with the Department of Labor and this Congress to insist upon incentives to be given to large corporations on the basis only of them retaining or creating jobs. We have ceased to become a power in manufacturing and we are not hiring or creating the opportunity for jobs for recent graduates, for working students, and/or for those individuals trying to support their families. This is intolerable and it is not reflective of the intelligence and opportunity that we represent in this country.
Corporations and this Nation must turn their eyes toward creating jobs.
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