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On the recordMay 9, 2018
Last week was National Small Business Week. The end of the week brought, appropriately, not just good news, but great news: Unemployment is now below 4 percent for the first time in nearly 20 years. 164,000 new jobs were created last month--24,000 new jobs in manufacturing and 17,000 new jobs in construction. Nearly 3.2 million new jobs have been created since the election of November 2016; We currently have 6.6 million job openings in the United States. This is an all-time high. Wages for small business workers increased last month by 3\1/4\ percent. That is the strongest rate of increase in over 2 years. All this, plus: Female unemployment is at its lowest level since 2000; Black unemployment is at its lowest level ever; Hispanic unemployment is at its lowest level ever; Consumer confidence is at its highest level since 2004; Job market confidence is at its highest level ever; and Small business confidence is at its highest level ever. Because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, since February, 90 percent of American workers--that is nine out of 10 American workers--have been opening bigger, less-taxed paychecks. They have more take-home pay, which means that they get to keep more of their hard-earned money to spend the way they want to spend it, not the way Washington wants to spend it. More than 530 companies, and counting, have reinvested billions and billions of dollars into their businesses and our Nation's economy.…
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Mike Kelly
Republican · Pennsylvania
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May 9, 2018

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