Williams priority: helping pass Obama jobs bill

BOARDMAN — Jay Williams, who resigned last month as Youngstown mayor to take a job in the Barack Obama administration, said his No. 1 priority is helping to get the president’s proposed $447 billion jobs bill passed.

Williams is the director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers.

When fully implemented, the jobs bill will help the economies of urban industrial cities, such as Youngstown, Cleveland and Detroit, Williams said.

Williams was at Mr. Anthony’s in Boardman today at a dinner in his honor, sponsored by the Youngstown Warren Black Caucus, a regional political organization.

It was his first public appearance in the Mahoning Valley since he started working in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 8.

“There’s no place like home,” Williams told The Vindicator.

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