JOB CREATION

Growing Jobs in Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania remains almost a full percentage point under the national unemployment average.

• 2011 saw the largest one-year growth in private sector jobs in Pennsylvania since 1999.

• Due to the Governor’s pro-growth policies, manufacturing job growth in Pennsylvania in 2011 was higher than any year since 1990.

• The Governor reformed the unemployment compensation system, ensuring employers will no longer face increased costs when hiring.

• The Governor’s efforts saved all three refineries in the Philadelphia area, ensuring hundreds of direct jobs and thousands of jobs in related industries will stay in Pennsylvania.

• The Governor is working to bring a petrochemical plant to Beaver County that could create up to 20,000 jobs.

• The Governor successfully advocated for the Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit that will help create tens of thousands of jobs.

• The Governor helped save 400 jobs at Aker shipyard in Philadelphia and has opened the door to the creation of 1000 more.

• The Governor led a bipartisan effort to secure more than $60 million to continue the dredging of the Delaware River, making the Port of Philadelphia more competitive with ports around the country.

Retraining our Workforce

• The Governor created a $2.5 million initiative to ensure Pennsylvania workers are ready for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Keystone Works is a job training and placement program focused on getting unemployed Pennsylvanians back to work.

• The Corbett administration created the Targeted Industry Cluster Certificate Program providing grants to students enrolling in certificate programs that are needed by high demand industries like energy, agriculture, and construction.

Energy Equals Jobs

• The natural gas industry is growing in Pennsylvania, creating 72,000 new job hires and, since 2007, generating more than $1 billion in related revenue.

• The Marcellus Shale law, signed into law by the Governor in February 2012, creates a regulatory environment that is consistent and predictable, providing the incentive job creators needed to relocate and invest in Pennsylvania.