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Jenkins: More Kansans Unemployed One Year After Stimulus

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s $862 billion so-called economic stimulus becoming law:
 
“I opposed the President’s stimulus plan last year because I did not believe it was the right plan to put Kansans back to work. Here we are one year later, and while the White House predicted 33,000 jobs would be created in Kansas, the fact of the matter is that our state has actually lost 47,100 jobs over the past year. From Atchison to Galena, folks in eastern Kansas continue to ask, ‘where are the jobs?’
 
“It is clear the $862 billion so-called stimulus is not working, but with unemployment hovering around 10 percent, it would be irresponsible to turn our backs on job creation. That is why I have worked on a no-cost jobs plan to provide tax relief to small businesses, to expand trade, to reform the unemployment system to help folks find jobs and to stop the reckless spending in Washington. Kansans need jobs, and I will continue working on responsible plans to jumpstart the economy without burying future generations deeper in debt that this generation was not responsible enough to pay for ourselves.”    
 

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