Robert Hormats: The State Department’s Jobs Agenda
Normally, my blog entries are short and succinct. (Or, at least, I hope so!) But I wanted to use this entry to provide a bit more depth about one of the State Department’s highest priorities: supporting American jobs.
As President Obama underscored in his address to the nation on August 31, “Our most urgent task is to restore our economy, and put the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs back to work.” Under Secretary Clinton’s leadership, the State Department is focusing fully on that goal by advancing an international economic policy that promotes opportunity and job growth for Americans.
The primary task of the State Department’s international economic policy is to promote American economic success in the global economy. That means crafting policies that help create — and sustain the growth of — well-paying, productive American private sector jobs. We do so by using a wide range of tools: promoting exports, protecting intellectual property rights, expanding trade opportunities, attracting foreign investment, supporting a fair business environment abroad and drawing on the successful experiences of other countries.
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