Nearly every chance he gets, Rep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) tells people the most important issue facing the federal government is jobs and the economy.
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Dold introduced legislation Thursday to reimburse employers for hiring and training new workers and explained it to a round table of employers and potential job seekers today in Lincolnshire. Schneider discussed some of his ideas with Patch this morning as well.
Under Dold’s proposal, a person who has been out of work for at least six months can go to an existing job center like the Illinois Department of Employment Security and obtain a certificate worth $7,000 to a prospective employer.
There is a catch to redeeming the certificate, according to Dold. A business must hire the person, offer training to develop the worker’s productivity, the person must be at the job at least six months and earn at least $15,000 in the first 10 months of employment.
“We want to give employers a tool to create jobs they can use,” Dold said. “We want to make sure it’s simple. We’re giving an opportunity to get valuable skills and something for the business willing to take the chance on them (the new hire).”
The proposed legislation will create a pilot program at 10 sites throughout the country to determine if it is feasible. If it works, Dold will push for expansion. He likes the idea because the government can gauge its success.
“It will be measurable,” Dold said of the program. “Often (the success) of programs cannot be measured. Here there will be very measurable results. Our goal is getting more people trained and back to work.”
Funding for the program will come from unspent money already allocated to job training. No action can be taken before the election because Congress will not return to Washington before then.
Schneider Sees Key Role for Small Business
Schneider, like Dold a small business owner, recognizes the importance of small business growth for economic recovery. He believes the last 19 months of economic growth is showing some improvement but more must be done.
“If we get small businesses growing, hiring more workers and paying higher wages, then we can turn this economy around,” Schneider said. “In order to do that, the government can offer targeted tax incentives to small businesses that are looking to grow, hire more workers and pay higher wages.”
When it comes to the long term unemployed, Schneider also believes training for jobs which are available is critical to put people whose skills are no longer useful into productive employment.
“I believe we can help people who have been unemployed for months or even years by working to make higher education and technical or vocational training more accessible and crafting job training programs to ensure that American workers are qualified to fill the skilled job openings currently available,” Schneider said.
Dold Releases Tax Returns, Schneider Declines
In other campaign related news, Dold released his income tax returns for the last three years while Schneider claimed the financial disclosure forms he filed with Congress as required by law was sufficient, according to a Chicago Tribune story.
“Anything voters would want to know about my finances, they can easily find in the personal disclosure forms that I filed with the House,” Schneider told Patch today. “Congressman Dold knows that he can't run on the specifics of his own record, so he's clearly just trying to make political hay out this to distract people from the fact that he votes with Republicans on every key issue."
Those disclosure forms show a range of income though nothing specific for Schneider or his wife, Julie Dann, a managing director at Mesirow Financial. They do show investment income between $200,000 and $550,000 per year for the family.
The Dold family showed income of $246,000 on its 2011 tax return, according to the Tribune story. Dold’s Congressional salary is $174,000 per year.
The Dold campaign did not furnish Patch with the tax returns when requested. The Schneider campaign provided the disclosure statements.
If you think that was a great economy, your standards are pretty low. Forget the partisan garbage for second and whose fault it was. 9/11 alone slowed down the economy for a year (being generous) and no one can blame that on Bush. Now, the rest of it ...
The government does not generate jobs, but they can help businesses do so. Will the Dems do that--no. I have more faith in the Republicans than I do in the Dems. So, the bottom line is the Democrats have had control of the White House since the 2008 election to make changes and haven't done jack. They can't even pass a budget! Which brings me to the phony unemployment numbers--7.8%?? Is this a joke, or merely the "October surprise?" We all know that next month the numbers will be revised and will be over 8% again. Yes, if you want the current unemployment crisis--vote for a Democrat.
Brad Schneider doesn't: http://freebeacon.com/the-schneider-shenanigans/
Why should the law be different? A job is not a right.
It doesn't make him a businessman, small or otherwise. "I'm much more concerned about Dold signing a pledge saying he will never, ever, allow the federal government to raise revenue." This is a feature, not a bug. The Central State already steals too much money.
There were so many levels of a bad economy throughout his eight years, it's not even amusing. But you're right: Let's look at those indicators after 9/11. You might want to check out S&P 500 and unemployment rates for three years after 9/11. Are we going to call gas prices an indicator? OK, no need. As for your statement about "eight years of Bush," you might also want to look at when housing starts began to drop - not just dive (although that was under Bush also). So much for the great housing market between 00-06.
Steven Jobs had all money, which he need and the best inventions in the world. In result he create few thousand high paying jobs and ten thousand distribution jobs for his product in USA. MOST OF JOBS WERE CREATED OVERSEAS. Conclusion: money alone and not all innovation will improve jobs in USA. We need support all innovation, but pay more attention to those, which will create jobs in USA. Wildfires take more than 45.000,000 acres of forests, which grow at least last 200 years, during a period less than 12 years. It's means that during all of this time all growing mass of forests almost at all area of 747 million acres in USA gone due to wildfires.
We still have in USA and Canada 100,000,000 acres of forests affected by killer beetles. They are decayed together with useless land, which in result emitted the same GHGs in the atmosphere in amount, which together with wildfires is bigger than from all transportation and power plant in USA. Mexico, and Canada together. All GHGs will be distributed all around the world during one week. At the same time these dry forests will never evaporate additional water from the soil; will never increase humidity in the atmosphere; will never increase probabilities of rain. If instead of advise to government of USA to waste money and resources on solar cells and windmills (disaster for economy and environment) we will start in 2000 cut all affected by killer beetles trees and fire them together with larvae of killer beetles probabilities of drought in USA and Canada will be significantly less and not so severe.
In my opinion the best way to do this job is building small power plants in affected forests and use wood from dead trees as the cheapest source of energy for electricity, heat, hot water production. It will be zero emission energy production. It will be very profitable businesses with jobs, which will never go overseas despite globalization. It will be real cooling of continent of North America by cooling process of evaporation of water from soil by trees and increasing probabilities of rain. It will be more probabilities of increase of production by farmers, because more of rain. It will be very helpful to start cleaning all ponds, lakes, streams, creeks; to start building of reservoirs to collect spring water. These jobs we could start in this fall. The same as in this fall we could start creation of systems to relocate water from flooded area to dry. These jobs, also will never go overseas and will be very profitable
Republicans don't think housing, working or health care is a right. Only minimum-wage is a right not to be broken by pay increases hahahahaha. Republicans need to be thrown out of every office they hold. Nobody minds people making like bandits but...live and let live yet Republicans believe in they and no one else has a right to good life. No wonder they oppose immigration from Germany and France and Italy...because those know month-long vacation and free health care is posible. Republicans only bring in losers from Somalia and Mexico who cut your grass and call you "sir." Republican Party-good for their families, bad for human race.
Why isn't Harry Reid or Mr. Durbin all over media demanding that Mr. Schneider release his tax forms.... chi lawyer..I don't know who you are, but I would like to you some day. Your posts are well written, and give facts...thank you
Here's hoping the current serial exaggerator in the White House also gets served his eviction papers. He allowed record record foreclosures and untold suffering on the middle class while he bailed out those who ruined our economy on Wall Street. Even Romney cited this and demanded regulations while Obama grimaced over the reminders of his numerous failures. Wait for another 120,000 to receive their layoff notices due to Simpson-Bowles which he wanted to tacked AFTER the election while we also get clobbered when the Bush Tax Cuts expire. In the 10th Congressional District, an average of $7,600.00 per household tax increase? This is what Obama wanted according to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. Is this what we want?
LOL. Do the words "balance sheet recession" mean anything to you?
No one who understands liberty or rights would call those things rights. You only have negative rights. Almost all positive rights are invalid since they require infringement on someone else's rights.
We know all about those, George.