Assist. Sec of Labor Jane Oates
Supporters of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit program have successfully secured a meeting time with the US Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary Jane Oats. Ms. Oats is Assistant Secretary for the DOL’s Employment and Training Administration (“ETA).
In the wake of the Department of Labor’s recent OMB recommendation to terminate the program, WOTC advocates hope to persuade DOL officials to more actively support renewal and funding of the WOTC program with Congress.
WOTC is currently slated to expire on December 31, 2011. A bill to reauthorize and extend WOTC through 2014 was introduced on June 1st and subsequently referred to committee on June 24th.
HR 2082, or the Work Opportunity Credit Improvements Act, was sponsored by Representative Aaron Schock (Rep, IL) and currently has 6 cosponsors. These include:
* Charles Gonzalez Dem, TX
* John Lewis Dem, GA
* Ronald Paul Rep, TX
* Charles Rangel Dem, NY
* Edolphus Towns Dem, NY
* Allen West Rep, FL
The WOTC Coalition is calling on supporters to contact their own members of Congress and to urge them to become cosponsors of the bill. See previous post.
Any one know if WOTC will be voted on in some package before end of 2011? Also, what are the chances of WOTC not being renewed before expiration or allowed to terminate?
Aren’t most dems and rep for this program. Is their opposition against the WOTC Program in congress?
Whomever meets with her please tell her to look at the stock market today and the job numbers! Isn’t this program a so called job creator? I really don’t like the way this is going!