WASHINGTON DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement this morning following news that the economy added 216,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate fell to 8.8 percent:
“Today’s report is encouraging news for American workers and illustrates that the policies put in place by President Obama and Democrats in Congress during the last two years are leading toward a continued economic recovery. Republicans, in contrast, have not taken any steps to help economic growth. Instead they are pursuing reckless cuts aimed at the middle class, threatening to once again derail our economy. More still needs to be done to continue our recovery and it would help if Republicans would spend some time working on proposals to accelerate job growth rather than trying to chop down programs that have done so much to help middle class American families."
