With jobs you can attack social exclusion.

Small businesses account for just about all of the new, private jobs in our state. When Pennsylvania's business owners speak up about how high taxes retard economic growth and job creation, the people who represent us in Harrisburg should listen.

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

We're not preparing our kids for the jobs of the future.

That's one thing I could help with ? bring jobs to the forefront. We need to continue to go to Washington, D.C., talk to our senators there that represent us. I want to continue to hold discussions with groups of people interested in bringing jobs in.

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.