{"id":2473,"date":"2011-10-11T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T18:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2012-01-10T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T22:08:05","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-president-obamas-jobs-plan-the-pre-debate-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/10\/11\/what-you-need-to-know-about-president-obamas-jobs-plan-the-pre-debate-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need To Know About President Obama&#8217;s Jobs Plan (The Pre-Debate Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2474\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Although the economy has played a big role in previous debates, tonight's event at Dartmouth College is set-up to focus on the economy alone\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/10\/124007593.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2474\" title=\"Republican presidential hopeful and form\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/10\/124007593-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/10\/124007593-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/10\/124007593-620x412.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/10\/124007593-220x146.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Robyn Beck\/AFP Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Although the economy has played a big role in previous debates, it&#39;s set to be the only issue at tonight&#39;s event at Dartmouth College <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tonight eight Republican Presidential candidates will be debating public policy at Dartmouth College.\u00a0 Specifically, they&#8217;ll be expected to focus on how they&#8217;d pump life back into our flagging economy.\u00a0 And although primary debates are (obviously) single-party affairs, don&#8217;t be surprised if President Obama&#8217;s American Jobs Act figures prominently in tonight&#8217;s discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for New Hampshire voters<em><\/em>, reporter Larry Brown <a title=\"Obama's American Jobs Act helpful or harmful for N.H.? Depends on your side of the aisle\" href=\"http:\/\/fosters.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20111011\/GJNEWS_01\/710119936\" target=\"_blank\">has broken down some of the key ways the AJA could affect the state <\/a>in an article for <em>Foster&#8217;s Daily Democrat<\/em>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the highlights of Obama&#8217;s jobs plan:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;[It w]ill provide $120 million in funds to New Hampshire to support up to 1,700 educator and first responder jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Proposes a $25 billion investment in school infrastructure that will modernize at least 35,000 public schools. New Hampshire will receive $70 million to support as many as 900 jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Proposes $5 billion in investments for facilities modernization needs at community colleges. New Hampshire could receive $8.7 million in funding in the next fiscal year for its community colleges&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Tax cuts for small businesses that would see 30,000 firms in NH receive a payroll tax cut.<\/li>\n<li>Immediate investments in transportation infrastructure that make available $132,600,000 to the state&#8217;s highway and transit modernization projects, and could support a minimum of approximately 1,700 local jobs.<\/li>\n<li>The state could receive about $20,000,000 to revitalize and refurbish local communities, in addition to funds that would be available through a competitive application.<\/li>\n<li>Reforms to unemployment insurance system that could help put the 18,000 long-term unemployed workers in New Hampshire back to work.<\/li>\n<li>Extending unemployment insurance and preventing 1,700 people looking for work in the state from losing their benefits in just the first six weeks.<\/li>\n<li>A Pathway Back to Work Fund that could place 300 adults and 700 youths in jobs.<\/li>\n<li>Payroll tax cuts that would see a typical New Hampshire household, with a median income of around $64,000, receive a tax cut of around $1,980.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Incidentally, if you&#8217;re in the mood for some lighter pre-debate fare, check out the Heckle-Risk Analysis for tonight&#8217;s event, courtesy of the <em>Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s blogger Erik Wemple, <a title=\"Republican debate: What will the audience do?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/post\/republican-debate-what-will-the-audience-do\/2011\/10\/11\/gIQAfDldcL_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight eight Republican Presidential candidates will be debating public policy at Dartmouth College.\u00a0 Specifically, they&#8217;ll be expected to focus on how they&#8217;d pump life back into our flagging economy.\u00a0 And although primary debates are (obviously) single-party affairs, don&#8217;t be surprised if President Obama&#8217;s American Jobs Act figures prominently in tonight&#8217;s discussions. Luckily for New Hampshire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[188,83,227,501,512],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}