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Barack Obama: The president introduced the American Jobs Act last September, which seeks to spur job creation through a payroll tax holiday, tax credits for businesses that hire veterans and the long-term unemployed, funding to save and create jobs for teachers, police and firefighters, and rebuilding crumbling schools and infrastructures, such as bridges and roads.
Newt Gingrich: Newt Gingrich’s jobs plan focuses on tax and regulatory reforms, repealing the Affordable Care Act, and Wall Street reform law and a balanced budget to create jobs.
Mitt Romney: Mitt Romney has produced a 59-page plan that suggests tax, budgetary, trade, energy, regulatory and other reforms to create jobs.
Rick Santorum: Rick Santorum’s jobs plan includes restructuring tax rates, repealing the Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory reform laws and cutting government spending. —Joyce Jones
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