Denise Majette on Jobs Former Democratic Rep (GA-4); 2004 former Senate challenger

Fund job training and small business development

There are three critical steps we should take to ensure that jobs are being created and our people are working:
1. ensure that small businesses have access to the capital & assistance they need;
2. fully fund job training programs so that unemployed and underemployed workers get the training and education they need to help them find good jobs; and
3. fully fund important education initiatives such as Head Start and No Child Left Behind, so that we have an educated workforce in the future.

Increase the minimum wage

Majette supports the following principles regarding jobs:
• Reduce government regulation of the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
• Establish empowerment zones in areas with large numbers of unemployed people.
• Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
• Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and unpaid leave for family emergencies.
• Increase the federal minimum wage.

Rated 87% by the AFL-CIO, indicating a pro-union voting record.

As the federation of America’s unions, the AFL-CIO includes more than 13 million of America’s workers in 60 member unions working in virtually every part of the economy. The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement.

The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.