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Despite the recent improvement in U.S. unemployment figures, it is clear that the thing Americans care about most right now is creating jobs and getting our economy rolling again.

Luckily, there is a way that lawmakers in Congress can do that right now. They need look no further than the wind turbines that dot our landscape in Illinois and all across the windy heartland to recognize that we can create jobs and encourage private investment by fostering stable tax policies in one of our economy’s few bright spots: wind energy.

In fact, one of the best ways of unlocking private capital, creating manufacturing jobs and putting Americans back to work is an extension to the federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind. It’s a common sense solution to our shared economic and energy challenges, and one our representatives in Congress should support.

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