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Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Candidate Ed Rendell On the Issues: Jobs: • In April 2006, the number of employed Pennsylvanians reached an all-time high of 5,747,500—120,000 more than when Governor Rendell took office in 2003. In the last four years, Pennsylvania has jumped from 41st in the nation for job growth to 15th. Additionally, in 2005 the statewide unemployment
Read moreNew York Gubernatorial Candidate Elliot Spitzer On the Issues: Jobs: • Eliot Spitzer says there a number of steps that need to be taken to create jobs and improve New York’s economy. These steps include: - Improve the business climate - Revitalize cities - Support small businesses - Invest in infrastructure - Foster the growth of strategic industries Health Insurance: • Eliot
Read moreMassachusetts Gubernatorial Candidate Deval Patrick Responds: Healthcare/Medicare/Social Security: I want health care for every man, woman, and child in Massachusetts that is affordable, portable, safe, patient-centered, and as effective as modern science can make it. I see health care as a common good – like clean air, safe streets, and effective education – and so I
Read moreMaryland Gubernatorial Candidate Martin O’ On the Issues: Jobs: • Martin O’Malley says Maryland must be an economic center based on first-rate education, technology, manufacturing and entrepreneurship. He believes Maryland has many natural strengths and advantages – in workforce, industry and institutions – that the state must use to create better, higher paying jobs. • Martin O’Malley has
Read moreIllinois Gubernatorial Candidate Rod Blagojevich Responds: Jobs: Four years ago, in the face of a $5 billion deficit and with an Illinois economy that had lost almost 250,000 jobs in the previous three years before I came into office, I balanced the budget through a series of touch budget cuts and by reducing the size of
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