Morrisville Is Next Stop on Lt. Governor’s Jobs Tour
The next leg of Lt. Governor Brian Dubie’s Jobs Tour will take him to the Lamoille County town of Morrisville. He launched the Jobs Tour on January 13 and has so far has travelled to Rutland, Windham, Bennington, Chittenden, Franklin and Caledonia counties, asking local area employers how the state can best help them retain existing jobs and grow new jobs.
Latest unemployment estimates for the Morristown-Stowe area indicate a December 2009 level of 7.7%, up from 6.8% the previous month.
Since taking office in 2003, Dubie has travelled all over the country and the world to promote Vermont businesses. He says that keeping existing jobs in Vermont and attracting new jobs requires Vermont to compete not just with 49 other states, but the world as well.
Forbes Magazine recently ranked Vermont as the 47th best state in the nation to do business. The ranking is down eleven spots from the previous year. Dubie attributes it in part to the state legislature’s failure to reduce state spending and “right-size” state government. “Actions have consequences,” he said, “and raising taxes in a recession, as the legislature did last year, is not leadership. It sends the message that Vermont is closed for business. When our small businesses grow, we create the revenue that funds all the great things that we value in our state.”
Lt. Governor Dubie says he is bullish on Vermont. “There is no bigger cheerleader for Vermont than me,” Dubie said. “But we simply must do better than 47th. Making Vermont the best state in New England to work and do business must be priority number one,” he stated.
“We need to send a message to our employers and employees that Vermont values them, and we need to send a message to the world that Vermont is open for business.” Dubie is encouraging state legislators to go to businesses in their own districts, to meet with employers and ask the same question: “How can Vermont make it easier for your business to hire and prosper?”
The itinerary for Thursday is as follows:
MORRISVILLE JOBS TOUR
25 March 2010
7:15 – 7:45 WLVB Radio 93.9 FM with Roland Lajoie
Rte. 15 West
8:00 – 9:00 Stone Grill Restaurant – Coffee Round Table
Rte 15 West
9:10 – 9:25 H.A. Manosh Corporation
120 Northgate Plaza
9:30 – 10:15 Butternut Mountain Farm
Industrial Park Drive
10:20 –11:00 MSI (Manufacturing Solutions, Inc.)
559 Harrel Street
11:10 – 11:45 Sterling Technologies
320 Wilkins Street
11:50 – 12:05 News & Citizen
417 Brooklyn Street
# # #
