HARRISBURG, PA – Pennsylvania Business Council’s President & CEO David Patti today released the following statement on Pennsylvania’s improving economy under the leadership of Governor Tom Corbett and Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, the state’s unemployment rate has fallen to 5.7 percent – the lowest level since September 2008 and far below the national average of 6.3 percent.

“It is no coincidence that under Governor Tom Corbett’s less taxes, more jobs agenda that we are seeing drastic improvement to Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate. Governor Corbett has created a business climate in Pennsylvania that has made it possible for Pennsylvania businesses to put people back to work. In order to create jobs, business need stability and certainty from the government, and that is exactly what we have gotten under Governor Tom Corbett’s leadership.”

For more information on the Corbett-Cawley campaign of less taxes and more jobs, please visit www.tomcorbettforgovernor.com.

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