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      "title": "American Jobs Act: Provisions for Hiring Targeted Groups, Preventing Layoffs, and for Unemployed and Low-Income Workers",
      "summary": "In response to continuing high rates of unemployment and a weak economy, President Obama announced his American Jobs Act on September 8, 2011. As stated by the President, the proposal aims to \u201cput more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working.\u201d The proposal was introduced, by request, as S. 1549 and H.R. 12. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid subsequently introduced the proposal with a different spending offset, as S. 1660 on October 6. Since then, individual pieces of the American Jobs Act have been considered\u2014and some provisions enacted\u2014as freestanding bills or parts of other legislation.\nThis report describes provisions in the American Jobs Act that fall into three major categories: \nprovisions to promote hiring and prevent layoffs among teachers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, veterans, and the long-term unemployed;\nprovisions to assist unemployed workers through unemployment compensation and reemployment services; and \nprovisions to expand workforce opportunities for low-income adults and youth. \nThe report does not discuss tax provisions (except for specialized tax credits intended as hiring incentives) or proposals related to infrastructure. (However, the report does discuss proposed School Modernization grants, including related provisions in the Fix America\u2019s Schools Today Act, S. 1597 and H.R. 2948.) \nThe American Jobs Act (and similar provisions in S. 1723) would aim to promote hiring and prevent layoffs of teachers, law enforcement officers, and firefighters, through grants to government entities totaling $35 billion. The act would also promote hiring of veterans and long-term unemployed individuals through tax credits to employers, costing an estimated $8 billion. (The veterans tax credit was enacted separately, on November 21, as part of P.L. 112-56.) The Administration\u2019s proposal also would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of an individual\u2019s unemployed status.\nThe act focuses on the income and reemployment needs of unemployed workers, particularly the long-term unemployed. In addition to provisions that would extend certain temporary compensation programs, the act would authorize a new Reemployment NOW program, to help states address the reemployment needs of eligible individuals, and would expand federal funding for state-administered short-time compensation (or \u201cwork sharing\u201d) programs. In total, these provisions would cost an estimated $49 billion.\nThe workforce development needs of low-income adults and youth also are a focus of the act, which would provide a total of $5 billion for three grant programs collectively called the Pathways Back to Work Act. \nAlthough not discussed in this report, tax reductions for employers ($70 billion) and employees ($175 billion)\u2014largely through payroll tax cuts\u2014would form the largest single category of spending under the American Jobs Act. Another $75 billion would go to infrastructure projects, including transportation ($50 billion), an infrastructure bank ($10 billion), and grants to rehabilitate foreclosed or vacant properties ($15 billion), in addition to $30 billion for School Modernization grants.",
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