Now “We know that it could add as many as 1.9 million jobs. We can put teachers back in the classroom. We can put construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads, bridges and schools. We know that would work.” President Obama in ABC News Interview, describing the President’s 2011 “Jobs Plan,” October 18, 2011  Then “Over the next two years, this plan will save or… Read more

Washington, DC – Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Geoff Davis (R-KY) issued the following statement today after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report titled, "TANF and Child Welfare Programs: Increased Data Sharing Could Improve Access to Benefits and Services."  The report details the nexus between Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), foster… Read more

The President hits the road again today to promote his “jobs plan.”  The bus tour, which he boarded after arriving on Air Force One, comes only a week after a stinging bipartisan rejection of Obama’s jobs plan in the Senate.  On this leg of the tour, he will make stops in both Virginia and North Carolina, after hitting Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois in August.  While the… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the September jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor.  A total of only 103,000 jobs were created in September and the unemployment rate remains at 9.1 percent. “The President wants to take more money from the American people so Washington can spend it.  That… Read more

Congressman Geoff Davis (R-KY), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing reviewing unemployment benefit proposals in the President’s latest jobs plan and assessing whether they will help the long-term unemployed return to work. The hearing will take place on Thursday, October 6, 2011, in… Read more

Today’s hearing is on the President’s proposals to help the long-term unemployed get back to work, which are part of his latest jobs plan.   There is certainly bipartisan agreement on that goal. But we need to do a better job helping all the unemployed return to work, because today’s short-term unemployed workers risk becoming tomorrow’s long-term unemployed.   For… Read more

Now “If we don’t act, the opposite will be true. There will be will fewer jobs.  There will be weaker growth….We know that this jobs bill could grow the economy an additional 2 percent.  That would mean an additional 1.9 million jobs.” … Read more

At today's Human Resources Subcommittee hearing on assessing the president's proposals to help the long-term unemployed, members of the subcommittee heard testimony from their colleagues in Congress, the U.S. Department of Labor, and other State and private sectors experts as well as a current unemployment benefit recipient. In the opening Member panel, Senator Wyden (D-OR) commended… Read more

Washington, DC – Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Geoff Davis (R-KY) issued the following statement after attending today's presidential signing ceremony at the White House for H.R. 2883, The Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act: "I commend the President for signing The Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act into law.  This law has… Read more

Then In 2010, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that unemployment insurance “is one of the biggest stimuluses [sic] to our economy….It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative that you can name.” Now Unfortunately, Ms. Pelosi forgot that there is no such thing as a free lunch and employers end up paying higher taxes.  As today’s Wall Street… Read more