The re-election campaign of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is pointing to today’s job numbers as proof that Massachusetts is emerging from recession faster than the rest of the nation thanks to the Governor’s leadership.
In its daily update, the Patrick campaign said that the 1,500 jobs added in February represent the first monthly gain in the state since July 2008, and that the construction, manufacturing, and health service sectors all added jobs last month.
“Patrick-Murray Administration investments have put local people to work on local projects,” the campaign said. “The Governor’s leadership is keeping Massachusetts on track to emerge from this recession faster than the rest of the nation.”
The email also noted that Governor Patrick spent the day visiting the latest Accelerated Bridge Program construction site in Worcester, “just one of 13 projects across the state where the Patrick-Murray Administration program is putting people back to work.”
The Patrick campaign said that Governor Patrick’s Accelerated Bridge Program is “investing $3 billion over eight years into bridges across Massachusetts that have been neglected for decades by past administrations. Since 2008, 13 projects have been completed, with 62 more on the way…The initiative has created hundreds of engineering and construction jobs, reduced maintenance costs, and removed 49 of our bridges from the structurally deficient list.”
