Conyers Applauds President Obama’s Plan for Jobs and Education

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For Immediate Release

Date: Friday, January 27, 2012

Contact: Matthew Morgan – 202-226-5543

Conyers Applauds President Obama’s Plan for Jobs and Education  

(DETROIT) –  Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement applauding President Obama’s approach to education and American manufacturing which he outlined in a speech today in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

“President Obama is right.  We need to break the boom and bust cycle that has characterized our economy for the last two decades and work together to forge an America built to last.  To do this,  Congress must:

·         Work to restore the American middle class by encouraging American manufacturing and making higher education more affordable. 

“I agree with the President that Congress needs to stop rewarding companies for sending jobs overseas and that Congress should stop subsidizing the oil industry.  Instead Congress should:

·         Invest that oil subsidy money into clean energy technology that will create new high tech jobs.  And;

·         Congress needs to make full employment the national policy of the Federal Government by passing H.R. 870, the Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act.    

“Higher education must be made more affordable and Congress needs to take real steps to alleviate students struggling under student loan debt.  I was honored to work with the President to end the system of corporate welfare that took money out of the pockets of student borrowers and I look forward to helping him move additional reforms through Congress that will further improve college affordability and provide prospective students with the information they need to make smart choices about their academic futures.  And Congress must now do more by preventing the scheduled increase in student loan interest rates this July.

“Finally, it is not fair that a quarter of all millionaires pay less taxes than millions of middle class households.  Congress needs to end these tax subsidies to the wealthy and instead use the money to invest in America’s future and pay down the debt in a responsible manner.”  

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