Supports tax credits for job creation & empowerment zones
Hagelin supports the following principles regarding employment:
Provide tax credits for companies that move job-creating industries into areas with high unemployment.
Increase funding for national job-training programs that re-train
displaced workers or teach skills needed in today’s job market.
Establish empowerment zones in areas with large numbers of unemployed people.
Hagelin says he would “harness the unlimited creative potential of our 270 million citizens.”
Source: 2000 National Political Awareness Test
, Jan 13, 2000
Welfare via block grants; focus on job creation
Hagelin supports the following statements regarding welfare issues:
Provide homeless families with apartment vouchers they can use to supplement the cost of an apartment.
Continue to give states and local governments responsibility for
welfare programs through block grants.
Maintain current welfare-to-work requirements in order for states to qualify for block grants.
Transfer homeless housing programs to states through block grants.
Provide continued Medicaid
benefits for those welfare recipients who have moved from welfare to work.
Require states to return any unused welfare block grant funding to the federal government.
Hagelin would “stimulate job creation by sustaining economic growth
through lower taxes and reducing the national debt; providing high-quality job training to increase job opportunities.”
