Creating High-Wage Jobs
I’ve heard a lot of people say that they can’t earn a decent living here. The wages are too low, and there are few good jobs available. Those high-tech high-wage jobs just don’t seem to be coming here.
As a councilmember, I will push for an aggressive business recruitment and retention program working on many different areas.
We need to better educate our workforce through support of public education and postsecondary job training programs.
We need to improve our infrastructure so that we have the communications, utilities, public transportation, roads, freight, and passenger rail that high-wage companies need in a community.
We need to push for the reduction of business personal property taxes to make doing business here more appealing.
We need to increase the “hip factor” and make Tucson a cool place to attract the young, educated workforce sought after by higher-wage companies.
In short, we need a war on low wages, fought on many fronts. As a councilmember, I will do what it takes to fight that war and bring us the jobs and the wages we deserve.
