On the eve of President Obama jobs summit, which will be held tomorrow, Thursday, December 3rd, to discuss job creation in the United States, Americans in a USA Today/Gallup Poll said that, the government must keep manufacturing jobs in the country, reduce taxes, provide support to small business development and undertake more infrastructure projects.
Gallup Poll: As President Obama holds a jobs summit Thursday to discuss ways to address the problem of growing unemployment in the United States, Americans’ top prescriptions for creating more jobs are to keep manufacturing jobs in the U.S. (18%), lower taxes (14%), provide more help to small businesses (12%), and create more infrastructure work (10%).
The results are from an open-ended question asked in a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Nov. 20-22, 2009. Additional tactics cited by at least 4% of Americans include reducing government regulations on business (7%), creating more green jobs (6%), providing more federal stimulus funding (4%), and implementing more pro-“buy American” policies (4%).
