The Quest for High Wages and Low Inflation.
Thanks to Illinois Attorney and Business Leader DON TRACY for inspiring this effort.
Great jobs.
Rising living standards.
Prices that don't run away.
We believe the surest path to all three is a free-enterprise economy that rewards work, encourages investment, and keeps our government from pouring fuel on inflation.
The problem we see.
Too many families are working hard and still falling behind.
Job openings can look plentiful on paper while take-home pay fails to keep up with rent, groceries, energy, and everyday bills.That squeeze has two sides:
- Too few durable, good-paying jobs in the places people actually live.
- Too much inflation, which silently cuts the value of every paycheck.
When prices rise faster than wages, “more jobs” is not enough. A job that cannot cover the cost of living is not the kind of prosperity we are after.
Our Answer:
Free Markets and Free Enterprise
Free enterprise is not a slogan. It is a system in which people are free to create, compete, invest, and trade—and in which success depends on serving customers, not on political favor.Used well, that system does two things at once:
1. It creates great jobs
Businesses hire when they can see a path to grow. Workers gain when more firms compete for their talent. Training, innovation, and new industries appear when capital can move toward ideas that work.Free markets tend to produce:
- More employers, not just more programs
- Pay that rises because workers are in demand
- Careers with ladders, not only short-term gigs
- Opportunity in Main Street shops as well as large firms
The goal is not any job at any wage. The goal is work that pays, lasts, and builds skill.
2. It helps hold inflation in check
Inflation is what happens when too much money chases too few goods—or when policy makes it harder and more expensive to produce the things families need.A healthy free-enterprise system fights inflation by:
- Expanding supply: more energy, housing, food, and goods
- Encouraging competition that keeps prices honest
- Rewarding saving and investment instead of endless cheap credit
- Limiting the kind of overspending and overregulation that raise costs for everyone
Stable prices protect wages. When a dollar keeps its value, a raise is a raise—not a race against the grocery bill.
The Jobs Coalition works to advance policies and public understanding that:
- Make it easier to start and grow businesses that hire locally
- Remove barriers that raise the cost of hiring, building, and producing
- Support workforce skills that match real demand in the economy
- Keep fiscal and monetary discipline so inflation does not rob workers
- Measure success by good jobs and affordable living, not by headlines
We want an economy where work is honored, enterprise is possible, and prosperity shows up in family budgets.
Why it matters now
Growth without price stability leaves families poorer in real terms. Price stability without growth leaves too many people without opportunity. We insist on both.Free markets are not perfect, and they need fair rules. But they remain the most reliable engine ever devised for raising living standards at scale. When they are allowed to function—and when inflation is treated as a threat to working people, not an afterthought—more families can get ahead without waiting for permission.
How you can help
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