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Michelle Griffin Young, Vice President for Public Policy, Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce (PA)

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Michelle Griffin Young serves as the Vice President of Public Policy for the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber is the largest in Pennsylvania and New Jersey serving 144,000 employees of our member organizations. Young executes the education, engagement and advocacy of Chamber members and policy makers. She is also the Producer of Business Matters, the region's only local business show on commercial television broadcast on 46 cable companies reaching 2.2 million households weekly. Young served as Communications Director for the County of Lehigh and then as Chief of Staff to PA Representative Jane S. Baker (R-134) after moving home to PA in 1999 from Washington, D.C. From 1990-99 Young spent more than nine years with the US Chamber of Commerce in the education, workforce development and federation divisions. Young graduated in 1990 from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School with a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Political Science. Young resides in Allentown, PA with her husband Ron.

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July 15, 2009 11:05 AM

RE: How Do We Modernize Transportation For An Unknown Future?

Planes, trains and automobiles…who knew at the time the popular comedy was released its title would become the key focus of business communities nationwide? Previously taxes, healthcare and an insufficient workforce plagued American businesses large and small. Today businesses are more concerned with the immediate needs of an outdated and inefficient infrastructure; freight and passenger rail systems, highways and bridges. In Pennsylvania our annual funding levels for transportation are significantly below those needed to maintain our infrastructure.  In fact, almost three years ago (11/06) the Pennsylvania Transportation Funding and Reform Commission (PTFRC) confirmed a transportation funding crisis exists and recommended…  Read more
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