Issue Position: Economic Plan: A New Direction

Issue Position

Today, families and small businesses across New Hampshire are struggling and Washington just doesn't get it. Health care and college are increasingly unaffordable. Wages are stagnant. Home values have dropped. Gas prices are unbearably high. And people are legitimately frightened about how high heating fuel costs will be this coming winter.

Instead of taking real action to address these major challenges, Washington for the last six years has been listening to the big oil and drug companies and Wall Street while leaving middle class families and small businesses behind.

With John Sununu's help, George Bush's failed economic policies have driven our economy into the ground, and, still, they promote this same failed direction.

Jeanne Shaheen believes we need a new economic direction, one that strengthens the backbone of our economy - small businesses and middle class families - and spurs the growth of emerging industries like medical research and clean alternative energy.

As Governor, Jeanne Shaheen strengthened New Hampshire's economy, leading to the creation of over 66,000 new jobs. She did it by enacting an economic agenda that put the needs of families and small businesses first while keeping New Hampshire's tax burden the lowest in the nation the entire six years she was Governor.

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