Creating Job and Economic Growth

Job creation, higher incomes, and expanding opportunities by growing Michigan’s economy are the top priorities for Tim Walberg, who has previously been named Michigan’s most effective congressman by the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking. Tim has advanced policies that built a healthy economy and created a brighter future for the next generation. We need leaders with a vision to spearhead our economic recovery and unleash economic prosperity. We need policies that promote job creation, increase incomes, and expand opportunities.

 

Tim Walberg’s plan to encourage job creation and boost wages:

 

Bring Back American Manufacturing

Tim has supported the Working Families Tax Cuts, which would deliver the largest tax cut in American history for working-class families and small businesses. Other provisions in the legislation will also bring back American manufacturing, spurring a boom in new investments, facilities, jobs, and opportunities by incentivizing Made-in-America products. This historic reform will create $284 billion in new economic growth. 

 

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Enhance Skilled Trades Training

As Chair of the Education and Workforce Committee, Tim is focused on improving education and workforce training opportunities by empowering local institutions and states. Tim voted for: ​

• The Every Student Succeeds Act, which transferred power and resources from Washington, D.C., education bureaucrats to local schools and states, because teachers, administrators, and local school boards know best how to educate students. These bipartisan reforms have been signed into law. 

• The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which improved workforce training by giving more power and input to local educational and training institutions, including community colleges, overwhelmingly passed the House and was signed into law.

• The Working Families Tax Cuts, which increases workforce training opportunities by expanding Pell Grant eligibility to individuals enrolling in high-quality, short-term career programs.

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Make College More Affordable

Michigan is blessed with many fine institutions of higher learning. Tim is committed to working with these schools as they provide a tremendous education and help students afford the opportunity. He helped usher through the Education and Workforce Committee legislation to give students clearer information on college costs and outcomes and make college more affordable by reforming accreditation and focusing on student results. He also helped author language to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), helping students and families navigate the process.

 

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Improve Infrastructure

Tim Walberg is working to improve our infrastructure and rebuild Michigan’s roads and bridges. He helped champion a long-term, bipartisan transportation plan to provide greater resources and decision-making authority to state and local governments—without raising taxes. This long-term plan, now signed into law, will help streamline and bring certainty to important road and bridge projects across our state. He also voted in favor of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, which focuses on protecting our water supply, shorelines, and environment. The legislation also streamlines the approval process, requires more accountability, and encourages public-private partnerships to leverage taxpayer resources to complete more water resources projects. ​

 

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Expand Rural Broadband

Tim will continue to support the expansion of broadband access to rural areas in America. An ever-increasing amount of daily life, from shopping to education to work, is conducted digitally. He has supported efforts to better identify and improve access in underserved areas. 

 

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Reduce the Regulatory Burden

Tim understands that onerous regulations discourage hard work, investment, and job creation. He voted for legislation to prevent Washington, D.C. bureaucrats from creating costly, job-destroying regulations without receiving approval from the American people’s elected representatives, and Tim had a common-sense bipartisan bill to increase efficiency within the federal government signed into law. Tim’s bipartisan legislation to increase government transparency regarding regulations passed the House.

 

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Open Global Markets 

By meeting regularly with Michigan farmers and manufacturers, Tim Walberg recognizes that 5th District citizens produce many quality goods to sell in the global marketplace. In a bipartisan manner, Tim works to open global markets to our Michigan-made goods, which supports and creates jobs here. He favors trade that is fair and free. If an agreement is not free and fair for Michigan workers and manufacturers, Tim will not support it.