FROM THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS July 29, 2003JS-616 Today, Treasury Secretary John Snow, Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao visited Wisconsin on their “Jobs & Growth Tour” to discuss the state of the economy and the recently enacted jobs and growth plan - as well as other efforts by President Bush to create jobs, strengthen the economic recovery and increase workers' standards of living. Today, during the “Jobs and Growth Tour” Secretaries Snow, Evans and Chao participated in town hall style meetings, roundtables, and tours. They met with families, workers, manufacturers, local business leaders, economic officials, small business owners, seniors and individual investors. They toured the Harley Davidson Powertrain Operations Plant in Wauwatosa, WI; participated in a small Business Roundtable event at Conger Industries in Green Bay, WI; and held a child tax credit/marriage penalty tax event at Culver’s of Wausau in Mosinee, WI. “We are seeing first-hand the signs that President Bush’s Jobs and Growth plan is taking root and beginning to have a positive effect on the economy,” stated Treasury Secretary Snow. “It has been great to meet the workers, families and small business owners in Wisconsin that are working hard to create more jobs and help the economy grow. With the arrival of the child credit checks starting this week, families in Wisconsin will have more money to use as they see fit—they can use it for back to school supplies, saving for their child’s education, or for a family vacation.” "Secretaries Snow, Chao and I are traveling in Wisconsin so we can collect real-time economic information from real American people," said Commerce Secretary Evans. "Today's leg of the Jobs and Growth tour allowed us to hear from scores of workers, small business owners and families about the economy and reinforced President Bush's belief that the strength of the American economy lies in our people and our factories, not within the halls of Washington D.C." "We had a good day meeting and talking with the working men and women in Wisconsin who are the backbone of our economy and our country,” stated Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao. “They are the ones who will benefit most by the President's Jobs and Growth plan which will help stimulate new economic growth and create more jobs." Many hardworking Wisconsin families and small businesses benefit greatly from the Jobs and Growth Act. As an example:
SOURCE: Counts are for the number of returns filed in 2002 that would have benefited from the package. These estimates are based on tabulations from all individual income tax returns processed by the Internal Revenue Service in 2002. Most of these returns covered tax year 2001. -30- |
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