State of New Hampshire secondary Archives: on Jobs

Andy Martin: Minimum wage but NOT intended as living wage

Bill Weld: In-state training for displaced workers, including on-line

The skills required by the new jobs correspond roughly to the skills now taught in the first two years of post-secondary education, or the community college level. We should adjust our budget priorities to cover the cost of in-state tuition for those displaced workers, as we did for our returning veterans under the G.I. Bill. To cut down on room and board expense, we should encourage and embrace on-line education. It has now been proved that distance learning is as effective as learning in a bricks and mortar classroom, so we should take advantage of that.

Chris Sununu: A supporter of right to work, supported proposed bills

Chris Sununu: Yes. "A supporter of right to work," has supported statewide right-to-work bills that have not passed.

Dan Feltes: No. Voted to kill "right-to-work" bill introduced in the New Hampshire Senate.

Chris Sununu: Vetoed minimum wage bill

Chris Sununu: No. Vetoed minimum-wage bill. "If you start pushing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, something has to give."

Dan Feltes: Yes. Raise to $15 over time. "States that have raised minimum wages to $15 an hour have seen their economies grow and thrive."

Corky Messner: There should be no federal minimum wage; leave to states

Corky Messner: No. "This is a state issue; there should be no federal minimum wage."

Jeanne Shaheen: Yes. Has supported Raise the Wage Act "so that we can help lift families out of poverty and improve our economy."

Dan Feltes: Raise minimum wage to $15 over time

Dan Feltes: Yes. Raise to $15 over time. "States that have raised minimum wages to $15 an hour have seen their economies grow and thrive."

Chris Sununu: No. Vetoed minimum-wage bill. "If you start pushing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, something has to give."

Dan Feltes: Voted to kill right to work bill in NH Senate

Dan Feltes: No. Voted to kill "right-to-work" bill introduced in the New Hampshire Senate.

Chris Sununu: Yes. "A supporter of right to work," has supported statewide right-to-work bills that have not passed.

Don Bolduc: I will never support raising the minimum wage

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Jeanne Shaheen: Extend unemployment benefits & childcare tax credit

She has introduced legislation to expand the childcare tax credit to help working families cope with the rising cost of child care.

Jeanne fought for the creation of the Manchester Job Corps Center and is a leading advocate for attracting students to STEM careers.

Jeanne took on the Senate Majority Leader when he excluded New Hampshire workers in his proposal to extend unemployment benefits

Jeanne Shaheen: Supported Raise the Wage Act to improve economy

Jeanne Shaheen: Yes. Has supported Raise the Wage Act "so that we can help lift families out of poverty and improve our economy."

Corky Messner: No. "This is a state issue; there should be no federal minimum wage."

Jilletta Jarvis: Reduce occupational license requirements

Jim Rubens: Enforce that all employers use E-Verify system

Here's where I stand:
• Require that all employers use the existing online E-Verify system to screen out illegal foreign workers and fine employers who hire illegal aliens. Arizona did this and agricultural worker wages went up by 10 percent, construction worker wages went up by 15 percent, and the illegal alien population dropped by 40 percent voluntarily by attrition without the need for costly mass deportation.

Maggie Hassan: Restore and improve the state's minimum wage

Governor Hassan signed into law the New Hampshire Paycheck Fairness Act to ensure women receive equal pay for an equal day's work.

Mitt Romney: Tie government union wages to private sector wages

ROMNEY: Well, the carpenters union, for instance, trains their workers to be more effective on the job, and when they compete against non-union workers, why they do that on a fair basis. If that happens, that's a positive contribution. But let me just say this with regards to unions: Right-to-work legislation makes a lot of sense for New Hampshire and for the nation. But also, let's not forget the government unions and the impact they're having. If we're going to finally pull back the extraordinary political power government unions are exerting in this country, we're going to have to say that people who work for the government, government workers, should have their compensation tied to that which exists in the private sector. People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

Molly Kelly: Recognize and value the contributions of older workers

Molly Kelly: Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour

Rick Perry: Repeal national right-to-work law; let states decide

PERRY: Actually, it is a federal issue, and it's a federal issue because of the law that was passed that forces the states to make a decision about whether or not they're going to be right to work. So Jim DeMint's legislation, I would support that of repealing that legislation that forces states to make that decision to be a right to work rather than all of this country being right to work. Listen, I'm not anti-union, I'm pro-job. The Obama administration's attack on job creation is by taxes and regulation--[we should] pull those regulations since 2008, and test them all for do they create jobs or do they kill jobs. And if they kill jobs, you throw them out. I'm a right to work guy. I come from a right to work state, and I will tell you, if N.H. wants to become the magnet for job creation in the Northeast, you pass that right to work legislation.

Rick Santorum: Unions are good community members but we need right-to-work

PERRY: Actually, it's a federal issue because of the law that was passed that forces the states to make a decision about whether or not they're going to be right to work. I'm a right to work guy.

SANTORUM: I have signed a pledge that I would support a national right to work. When I was a senator from Pennsylvania, I didn't vote for it because Pennsylvania's not a right to work state, and I didn't want to vote for a law that would change the law in Pennsylvania, number one. Number two, what can unions do? They can do training. They also do a lot in the community. I work with a lot of labor unions in Philadelphia and other places to do a lot of community involvement work and they try to participate as good members of the community like the business does.

Scott Brown: My job is to let businesses create jobs

Brown made the comments at a town hall in Hudson, New Hampshire on Wednesday. The comments were flagged by the opposition research shop American Bridge 21st Century. His comments were in response to a question about what he would to do bring jobs to New Hampshire.

"Here's the thing, people say, what are you going to do to create jobs? I am not going to create one job, it is not my job to create jobs. It's yours," Brown said. "My job is to make sure that government stays out of your way so that you can actually grow and expand. ObamaCare's a great example. The number one job inhibitor is ObamaCare.