While some politicians are all talk, Jon has turned ideas into action to create jobs for Montanans.

More than 1,500 Montana companies and individuals have participated in Jon’s Small Business Opportunity Workshops across the state. From Great Falls to Bozeman, from Billings to Kalispell, to Missoula, Jon’s workshops have brought Montanans together with industry leaders and investors to grow their businesses, boost exports, and put more Montanans to work.

Jon has also passed tax cuts to help small businesses create jobs. The Small Business Jobs Act cut taxes for small businesses by more than $12 billion and boosted lending and access to private capital, all without adding to the national debt. And the HIRE Act set up a payroll tax holiday for businesses to hire unemployed workers and allowed them to write off expenditures.

From his seat on the influential Appropriations Committee, Jon has successfully fought to create jobs in Montana communities by investing in physical infrastructure, public safety, and research and development projects, like Billings’ Bench Boulevard and the Kalispell bypass, the Custer Avenue Interchange in Helena, and Black Eagle Road in Great Falls.

Jon’s best ideas to boost jobs come directly from the Montanans he meets in his travels around the state. Measures like Jon’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act – which would put folks back to work in the woods on large-scale forest restoration projects – are Montana-made solutions Jon is proud to champion in the Senate.

Jon helped pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to make sure women are paid an equal wage for an equal day’s work.

And Jon helped write and pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which created jobs through infrastructure projects such as the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Regional Water System, which will deliver clean drinking water to more than 50,000 people across northcentral Montana. The Recovery Act also cut taxes by a half-billion dollars for Montanans.

Click HERE to see where Jon stands on the importance of bringing jobs to Montana.