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Official title: Improve and Enhance the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Act (Executive Calendar)
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. President, when I go back to Louisiana, I meet with people around the State. Some things stand out. I went to a business once, and there was a fellow working. And the gentleman who was taking me around his business said: That guy over there 20 years ago got out of prison, and he has been the greatest employee we have ever had.
somebody getting a job and keeping a job and learning how to feed their family in an honest way.
facility in Louisiana, and recruited the young men and women upon their separation because they just knew how to work with a team. They just knew how to work within a command structure. They had leadership ability, and he really made—his business made a real effort to get those people into a job.
out of the service. It could be a trailing spouse who otherwise might have a problem finding a job, but in this man's employment, they got a great job.
being placed. We find that those people coming out of prison have a difficult time. Those people coming off of welfare have a difficult time getting a job.
getting a job, you are more likely to go back on welfare. If you are the trailing spouse and every 6 months you have moved and then your husband or your wife separates from the military, the trailing spouse has a difficult time because you look at the work record; she or he has been moving every 6 months. It is difficult for that employer to take a leap on someone with that kind of a record.
Opportunity Tax Credit Act, which we call WOTC. WOTC is a bill that makes it easier to get a job if you are someone who, for one reason or another, might have a difficult time doing so.
So we have mentioned the spouse of someone in the military. Again, they had to relocate so often that their work history looks like they can't keep a job. But WOTC would give an employer a Federal tax credit if they hire that military spouse, benefiting the employee, the employer, and rewarding that spouse who sacrificed just as much as the servicemember.
for providing the military spouse the opportunity to build a stable, rewarding career. And in our country, that is how we should treat those who served our country in the military.
good job; the mom who took off to raise children and is now getting back into the workforce; the lower income family coming off of welfare.
a credit in terms of whether you hire that person. If there is an extra expense, if there is a little bit more turnover in that group of people whom you hire, the WOTC would—that tax credit, work opportunity tax credit—benefit the company.
meaningful ways to strengthen a person's future, to support their family, and to uplift their community is by taking the skills that you know you have and finding a job in which you can meaningfully use those skills; a job in which you are happy to go to work and you are happy to come home. Yes. You love your vacation, and you love your weekend, but you are proud to have that job.
SNAP benefits and you are able-bodied and you can work, then you should. But WOTC helps those who have been out of the workforce rejoin the workforce and supports the businesses along the way.
When somebody gets a good job, they get more than an income. They find stability. They become independent. They have self-respect. They have a tool with which to achieve the American dream. And that is why I think we must reauthorize WOTC, which expired last December.
contacted my office asking that Congress reinstate it, so that military spouse or the servicemember newly separated from the service, the working mom, the low-income family, the person being separated from jail, all these have the opportunity to work hard, contribute to society, to rejoin society's workforce, and succeed, despite the challenges they might face.
This is good for America. This is good for business. This is good for society.
Now, I wake up every day, and I think: What can I do to make life better for the people of my State and my country?
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