Gallup- Americans’ Top Job-Creation Idea: Stop Sending Work Overseas

I really wish we had started a robust WPA type program a couple years ago.

PRINCETON, NJ — One in four Americans say the best way to create more jobs in the U.S. is to keep manufacturing in this country and stop sending work overseas. Americans also suggest creating jobs by increasing infrastructure work, lowering taxes, helping small businesses, and reducing government regulation.

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Americans and their elected representatives are highly focused on employment and jobs at this juncture in history. Gallup’s unemployment tracking shows some slight improvement this month, and Gallup finds job creation is more positive than a year ago. Still, Americans consistently say that jobs and the economy are the most important problems facing the country, with 26% citing jobs specifically as the nation’s most important problem in March.