U.S. Travel Applauds Senate Action on Criminal Justice Reform

U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Roger Dow issued the following statement on the upcoming Senate vote to reform the criminal justice system:

“As an industry that helps generate one out of every nine American jobs and is a top 10 employer in 49 states, the travel community is deeply attuned to issues that affect the U.S. workforce. Without question, the job training and anti-recidivism provisions in the First Step Act of 2018 will help increase the pool of quality job-seekers in the labor market, which is a boon to travel-related businesses in every state and all 435 congressional districts. This, in turn, will enable the American travel industry to further improve upon the $77 billion trade surplus it generated last year. The First Step Act not only institutes numerous humane reforms, but it just makes good economic sense.”