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Mayor and Human Services officials urge Congress to extend JobsNow subsidy program
Summary
Mayor Newsome, the Human Services Agency and local business leaders urged Congress to extend the federal JobsNow wage‑subsidy program, saying roughly 3,820 San Francisco families are employed through the program and that a $2.5 billion federal extension would preserve jobs nationwide.
City officials and business leaders used a Sept. 8 event to press the U.S. Senate to extend the JobsNow federal wage‑subsidy program for another year. Trent Roe, director of the Human Services Agency, said the city had enrolled roughly 3,820 people in San Francisco through the program and that federal extension would preserve those jobs locally. The city team and Mayor Newsome framed the program as a private‑sector‑oriented stimulus: it subsidizes wages paid by employers and, according to the presentation, projects tens of millions in reimbursed wages.
Mayor Newsome and other speakers emphasized…
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