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Do you have the Journeys Attitude? Journeys is looking for fun, hard-working and sales-oriented people who love shoes. The stores offer a high-energy, customer service focused vibe. Our employees are passionate and energetic about what they do and it shows. We embrace individuality and celebrate self-expression. One of the best things about working for Journeys is that we promote from within. The vast majority of our Home Office employees started in one of our stores. Work for Journeys, get some experience and who knows where your CAREER may take you. You can browse career opportunities and apply online here: Careers at Journeys  

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• discount 47%
• Flexible Work Hours 37%
• Sales Meeting 10%
• None of the above 7%

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• Less than Two Years 63%
• Two to Five Years 37%
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• Strongly agree 47%
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• Work hard, play hard 17%
• Fast Paced 7%
• Somewhat Conservative 3%
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• Walkability grade  B
• Diversity grade  A
• Nightlife grade  A

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“ Since they were my first pair , she gave me some tips on how to break them in. ” in 2 reviews

“ Jacob and his staff were so friendly, welcoming, and helpful ! ” in 2 reviews

“ So I told Jacob (the manager) after a very long talk that unlike most people who say they will post a review and dont, I will follow thru. ” in 5 reviews

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Good service from Julian. I believe that there should be more people like him. We also got the items we needed

Horrible service from Kiki. I heard her talking bad about customers and she was extremely rude to me. She has a tone in which it is as if she is judgmental and hateful. I wanted to do a return and the entire situation was rude and disrespectful. I work In customer service as well so I tried to remain composed while smiling and saying thank you but still she was just rude. I believe she is a manager. Imagine being a manager but being disrespectful to customers. The other workers are nice though steer clear from Kiki

I came here yesterday in search of new shoes, a cross body bag, and a backpack. I started off here, decided to walk around the mall, and Icame back after my search else where was unsuccessful. I ended up purchasing items that I normally wouldn't- I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone. I bought some really cute Pumas with cheetah/leopard (?) print, an adidas backpack, and an adidas cross body bag. Inventory: There is definitely room for improvement. I am 30 years old and have a small foot (4.5-5 youth). I was looking for workout shoes and there was definitely a lack of selection in my sizes. Like I mean, they only had one shoe that I liked and was in my size. I was getting desperate since other stores also lacked my sizes, but I was so happy with the Puma's that I purchased. They were comfy! Service: Although they didn't have many shoes in my size (a 4.5-5 youth) I decided to leave this review for the amazing service that I receive. When we came back the second time the staff at the store recognized us and asked if we were there earlier and immediately started to help us grab small backpacks that were high up. As I said previously I was looking for a small back pack as well. I wasn't sure if my 32 oz hydro flask would fit in the bag that I was looking it so the staff member brought there's for me to use to see if the dimensions would fit mine. It was a small, but kind gesture. I looked around and asked for multiple shoes in multiple sizes and the employees here all seemed so happy to help. Overall: It would be amazing if they had a larger selection of shoes in youth sizes, but since the service was back I will be back the next time I'm looking for some shoes. Thank you all again! Keep up the amazing work and kindness. I appreciate you all.

TLDR; Anisa was great, customer service has always been on par when I visited! This review is for Anisa (saw her name tag) specifically. She was absolutely wonderful, helping us with our exchange while assisting other customers in the store. She made sure the shoes I tried on fit well before exchanging them, especially because sizing on docs are odd. Since they were my first pair, she gave me some tips on how to break them in. We were in and out within 10 minutes! A couple weeks prior, I had come in to try on a pair of docs JUST to get a feel of the sizing. A young gentleman helped me and brought out a ton of sizes, but I didn't catch his name! He didn't pressure me into buying anything but was very helpful&friendly as well.

Exchanging a pair of vans I ordered online. Unfortunately they were a little big. John C. was super awesome in helping me get another pair. Had to get em online cuz didn't have my size in store. Super helpful staff here that doesn't want you to leave until your completely happy. Hopefully the new pair will work for me. If not I'm sure they will do what needs to be done to have another satisfied customer. If you value customer service skip the Vans store and come here.

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Great location by the food court over in the Westfield Valley Mall. Subpar customer service. If you've ever been to a Journey's you know what to expect. It's a small shoe store that sells a bit of an assortment of shoes from boots, to running shoes, to sandals, and more. I came in here to get some Doc Martens because it's hard/rare to find a stand alone Doc Marten store or find more than a few of them in a department store. While Journey's tend to have the largest selection of Doc Martens outside of their stand alone, it seems to be a hit or miss by location on what they actually carry and the sizes. It has been a while since I had been to Journeys, almost a decade to be exact, and I remembered why I stopped going to them again today.

Chantal was the worst , terrible attitude. This employee alone just ruined it for me and I won't come to journeys again after this experience. Chantal gave attitude when getting out the shoe size I asked for and she ended up giving me the display . Then when I decided I would purchase the shoe she pulled the display to sell . I asked for another pair rather than the display and she said it was all they had. I asked if another location had it or if she could check the back just in case. But Chantal didn't want to look and she asked the other employee and she also said no they didn't have anymore and didn't want to check the back either . Chantal said if I didn't want the display , "it's whatever you want to do." There was no one in the store except myself and my friends so she wasn't busy, and I even told her the shoes are a birthday gift so I wanted the shoes to be in great condition. But she just kept saying the same thing , " it's whatever you want to do." She seemed overall annoyed when I went in and asked for help since I did bother her while her and the other employee were talking. But I just wanted friendlier customer service since I am paying for an expensive shoe such as Doc Martens. I'm not confrontational, so I would rather just write my opinion here . If you want shoes I suggest just going to VANS, Converse and doc marten stores instead. Since these stores have employees that are required to have great customer service.

Just went to get my daughter her first pair of doc martens.They placed them on hold for me a high I appreciated.Both associates were extremely helpful.Tasha I think her name is was exceptional! I ended up buying two pairs.And her upbeat and cheerful attitude made me feel very welcome!!!! Great job girls

I walked in there trying to buy some crocs and the ladies who are working there were not wearing their mask and did not approach me or help me in anyway shape or form. They were just talking to each other with their mask OFF.

Went here to return a pair of shoes, I had been given the wrong size. The employee had told me she was unable to help me because they were "used" but I don't know how that's possible given I can't even physically fit the shoe on my foot. She tried to accuse me of lying when it was someone in their store who had clearly made a mistake. I've worked in retail before and we've been taught to never argue with the customer, I could understand if company policy can not honor a sale or refund. But this pair of shoes was clearly brand spankin new- never worn out of the box. You work for retail, so why take your job so seriously? Nothing is more agitating than bad customer service. I attached a picture of the shoes to exemplify the pair she told me was "used and damaged". Clearly there's not a single mark or scuff on these.

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Michigan has been cashing in federal benefit money paid to children in foster care to cover some of its own child welfare costs. It is one of 44 states that received an ‘F’ grade because of the practice from the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Children are not supposed to pay for their own foster care: That’s the government’s job. But the state has been taking disability benefits as well as survivor benefits and Veterans Affairs benefits meant for children whose parents have died, ostensibly to pay for just that.

Emily Reinig, a consultant who worked on the institute’s report, called the practice of taking foster kids’ benefit money shameful, predatory, and a violation of due process and equal protection rights.

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It’s also routine. In 2020, 42 states reported using $251 million in benefits to offset child welfare agency costs, according to a child welfare financing report produced by Child Trends.

Agencies in many states have even applied for survivor and disability benefits themselves without notifying the child or their relatives or passing along the money, according to a 2021 investigation undertaken by National Public Radio and The Marshall Project.

That reporting estimated that 25,000 children are affected nationally; around 10% of children in foster care are entitled to Social Security benefits totaling, on average, more than $700 per month.

In Michigan, the benefit money received by DHHS amounted to $3.2 million in fiscal year 2022-2023. The department says 100% of the funds are being used to reimburse the state for the cost of caring for kids in the child welfare system.

“We interpret that to mean that 0% of the children’s benefits are being used in furtherance of their best interests,” Elisa Weichel, administrative director of the Child Advocacy Institute, wrote in an email to the Free Press.

A spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said it uses state and federal resources to provide the best possible care for Michigan children, including those in foster care.

"When a child is placed in an out-of-home situation with MDHHS, income or funds available to the child are secured and used to reimburse the public taxpayer dollars that provide payment for the child's care. If the child's total income exceeds the cost of care, the excess is saved for the child," the spokesperson wrote in an email to the Free Press. "This is common practice among many states."

Michigan makes some children pay for their foster care

The practice of taking money from foster kids is not at all new. A 2006 legal paper put it bluntly that “foster care agencies are engaged in the systemic practice of converting foster children's Social Security benefits into a source of state funds.”

The Child Advocacy Institute put out a 2011 report urging states “not to steal from their children.”

“Why should kids with Social Security have to pay for their own foster care?” asked Jill Bauer, a staff attorney at Legal Services in Washtenaw County.

Bauer said Michigan doesn't appear to have a system in place to determine if all of a child’s federal benefits are being used for their care or if excess money should be kept for them.

“My understanding is that the department is supposed to be a payee of last resort,” she said — collecting a child’s money only if no other adult can be found to hold it for them and ensure it’s being used for their benefit. “I haven’t seen that that’s happening.”

It didn’t happen when Jenny Bowden’s son went into state care. The benefits he was receiving after the death of his father — $899 per month — were redirected to DHHS during the nearly six years he spent in the child welfare system, even though his mother was still asked to provide clothing for him. The checks were still being sent to Lansing six months after he returned home.

It’s been almost two years since she was reunited with her son, and Bowden is trying to recoup that money. She needs it. She’s still trying to pay debts she incurred while her son was in care — notably the vehicle she had to buy so she could make her court-ordered visits to him. The Free Press is withholding his name to protect his privacy.

Bowden said thinking about why the state took her son’s benefit money even after he was out of foster care leaves her feeling hurt. “I don’t understand how they can do that to kids when they’re trying to move forward with their life,” she said.

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While Congress could prohibit states from taking money from foster children, the issue has not garnered momentum at the federal level. The 2021 investigation galvanized some efforts to close this legislative loophole, with several states passing legislation that helps foster children keep their benefits and others introducing bills.

In Michigan, Rep. Kathy Schmaltz introduced HB 4694 last year, which called for DHHS to use or conserve the benefits in the child’s best interests.

It would mandate that DHHS put an age-based percentage of a child’s benefits into savings for them; at least 40% must be conserved for the child if they are 14 or 15, at least 80% if they are 16 or 17, and 100% must be put away for foster children who are 18 to 20 years old. It would also require children in care to receive financial literacy education.

“If we don't take care of them, they're not going to be successful in life, and they've already had such a tough life,” Schmaltz said. “So why are we making it tougher? ... Just give them some of this money.”

The bill did not come up for a vote last year, but Schmaltz was not deterred. “I'm very confident that we will get this through sooner or later,” she said.

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People who are fit to work but do not accept job offers will have their benefits taken away after 12 months, the prime minister has pledged.

Outlining his plans to reform the welfare system if the Conservatives win the next general election, Rishi Sunak said "unemployment support should be a safety net, never a choice" as he promised to "make sure that hard work is always rewarded".

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Mr Sunak said his government would be "more ambitious about helping people back to work and more honest about the risk of over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life" by introducing a raft of measures in the next parliament. They include:

• Removing benefits after 12 months for those deemed fit for work but who do not comply with conditions set by their work coach - such as accepting a job offer

• Tightening the work capability assessment so those with less severe conditions will be expected to seek employment

• A review of the fit note system to focus on what someone can do, to be carried out by independent assessors rather than GPs

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• The introduction of a new fraud bill to treat benefit fraud like tax fraud, with new powers to make seizures and arrests.

He insisted the changes were not about making the benefits system "less generous", adding: "I'm not prepared to balance the books on the backs of the most vulnerable.

"Instead, the critical questions are about eligibility, about who should be entitled to support and what kind of supports best matches their needs."

But Labour said it was the Tories' handling of the NHS that had left people "locked out" of work, and a disabled charity called the measures "dangerous".

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Rishi Sunak today announced he wanted to tackle what he calls "sick note culture" which he says is costing the taxpayer £69bn and rising.

In effect, he said today that if his party wins a general election - and he is still the prime minister - he plans to strip GPs of their power to sign of people off work.

Instead, unspecified "specialist work and health professionals" would be given the job of issuing sick notes in England to combat what he called a "worrying" number of 2.8 million younger potential who were out of work as of this year.

General election posturing aside, is the prime minister's diagnosis of the problem the right one?

From OBR figures, the number of sick notes has stayed relatively stagnant over the past four years – essentially flat with the exception of lockdowns – and it's difficult to determine why sick notes are issued, for mental health or otherwise.

Where increases do arise are on the levels of worklessness generally. "Economic inactivity" is now higher than in the pandemic and the biggest driver behind this seemed to be long-term ill health – people out of work for more than three years.

The director of the Institute for Employment Studies, Tony Wilson, says these figures suggest that the problem is not higher flows of people out of work, but rather lower flows into work. He says sick notes are important but not the whole picture as the priority should be to help those already out of work.

One of the rationales behind the government's announcement today was that Britain simply "can't afford" the current levels of sickness benefit and it was "not fair on taxpayers".

Rishi Sunak made a point of stating that those who are anxious or depressed should be expected to work saying that while "“we should see it as a sign of progress that people can talk openly about mental health conditions in a way that only a few years ago would've been unthinkable" - he was also concerned that 53% of people inactive due to long term sickness reported they had depression, bad nerves or anxiety.

But Louise Murphy from the Resolution Foundation says most PIP claims among young people do relate to "psychiatric disorders" but that these tend to be long-term conditions such as ADHD and autism rather than anxiety and depression.

Critics have also pointed out something missing from this morning's speech is NHS mental health capacity, after NHS bosses warned "overwhelmed" services had been unable to cope with a big post-COVID increase in people needing help.

As these plans are promised for the next parliament and a consultation will be the next steps, it is likely there will be more detail to come in the coming months from the government on how these plans can be legislated.

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows 9.4 million people aged between 16 and 64 were "economically inactive", with over 2.8 million citing long-term sickness as the reason.

Mr Sunak said 850,000 of them had been signed off since the COVID pandemic and half of those on long-term sickness said they had depression, with the biggest growth area being young people.

He also claimed the total being spent on benefits for people of working age with a disability or health condition had increased by almost two-thirds since the pandemic to £69bn - more than the entire budget for schools or policing.

"I will never dismiss or downplay the illnesses people have," said the prime minister. "Anyone who has suffered mental ill health or had family and friends who have know these conditions are real and they matter.

"But just as it would be wrong to dismiss this growing trend, so it would be wrong to merely sit back and accept it because it's too hard, too controversial, or for fear of causing offence."

The prime minister said he knew critics would accuse him of "lacking compassion", but he insisted "the exact opposite is true", adding: "There is nothing compassionate about leaving a generation of young people to sit in the dark before a flickering screen, watching as their dreams slip further from reach every passing day.

"And there is nothing fair about expecting taxpayers to support those who could work but choose not to.

"It doesn't have to be like this. We can change. We must change."

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But Labour said the "root cause of economic activity" was down to the Tories' failure on the health service, with record NHS waiting lists hitting people's ability to get back in the workplace.

Acting shadow work and pensions secretary Alison McGovern said: "After 14 years of Tory misery, Rishi Sunak has set out his failed government's appalling record for Britain: a record number of people locked out of work due to long-term sickness and an unsustainable spiralling benefits bill.

"Rather than a proper plan to get Britain working, all we heard today were sweeping questions and reheated proposals without any concrete answers."

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey called it "a desperate speech from a prime minister mired in sleaze and scandal", adding: "Rishi Sunak is attempting to blame the British people for his own government's failures on the economy and the NHS and it simply won't wash."

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Meanwhile, disability charity Scope said the measures were a "full-on assault on disabled people", adding they were "dangerous and risk leaving disabled people destitute".

James Taylor, director of strategy at the charity, said calls were already "pouring in" to their helpline with people concerned about the impact on them, adding: "Sanctions and ending claims will only heap more misery on people at the sharp end of our cost of living crisis."

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Help for disabled people in England and Wales to get jobs is axed amid benefits crackdown

Closure of Work and Health Programme comes hard on heels of Rishi Sunak’s bid to end the UK’s supposed ‘sicknote’ culture

A major scheme to help disabled people into work has been quietly scrapped – just as the prime minister announced a crackdown on disability benefits.

The £100m Work and Health Programme, operating in England and Wales, will end in the autumn, providers have been told, at the same time that Rishi Sunak wants to cut benefits for 420,000 sick and disabled people in an attempt to force them into work – a move that charities say would instead leave people destitute.

The blow to disabled people comes after the prime minister unveiled a plan to hand power to officials with no medical training to decide whether an employee is sick, raising the possibility that decisions about workers’ health will be taken to hit targets rather than on clinical need.

Charities condemned Sunak’s plans as a “ full-on assault on disabled people ” last week, after he announced a consultation on the future of the personal independence payment (PIP), which helps cover the extra costs of living with a disability or ill health.

The prime minister wants to cut the disability welfare budget of £69bn a year, amid rising levels of sickness. The charitable Health Foundation said last week that by 2040 health inequalities meant that 3.7 million adults, many in deprived areas, would be living with a major illness such as type 2 diabetes, chronic pain or depression.

Sunak said that Britain had a “sicknote culture” and blamed the problem of “young people … parked on welfare”, although the majority of people receiving statutory sick pay are women over 50 working part-time, according to the Resolution Foundation .

He said there was “a moral mission” to help people return to work. Yet he did not mention the end of funding to help people return to work through the Work and Health Programme (WHP). It was launched in November 2017, with some EU funding, and was primarily a voluntary scheme aimed at helping disabled people into work. By November 2023 it had helped 300,000 people, with 31% still in their jobs after two years.

Provider firms worked with people with disabilities to discuss their ambitions and abilities to target mainstream jobs, according to Elizabeth Taylor, chief executive of Employment Related Services Association, which represents providers. She said that scrapping WHP would leave “a big gap in provision”, as new programmes would not help as many disabled people, and those in some areas would have no support at all for a year.

Last year Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, announced Universal Support, with the aim of helping 25,000 disabled people into work by September. Although the scheme was welcome, it would not be nationwide until the summer of 2025, Taylor said, and would help fewer people.

“When this is put in the context of rising numbers on health-related benefits, greater expectations on people to find work and labour market shortages, it is alarming.”

The gap means providers will be left without funding, and some may fail or lay off the staff needed to help disabled clients find work. Taylor said that without support, employers would be “likely to fall back to traditional hiring practices, therefore less likely to give disabled applicants the job opportunity”.

Gareth Parry, a director at Maximus UK, one of the providers, told the Commons work and pension committee last week there had been national programmes helping disabled people into work since 2000.

“This is the first time for a long time that I can remember we’re getting to a point where there isn’t any specialist disability provision in place for people who require it from November of this year,” he told MPs.

Stephen Timms, chair of the commons work and pensions committee, said WHP had not been “sensationally successful, but it has supported quite a large number of people to return to work”.

“We haven’t had a chance to ask the minister yet why they’re doing it,” he said. “But there’s nothing obviously going to replace that specific provision, when all the evidence, including what the prime minister has said, is that it’s needed more than ever.”

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Sunak’s plan to cut benefits was announced alongside a separate initiative billed as stripping GPs of the power to issue sick notes, although these are only issued to some employees and statutory sick pay of £116.75 a week – barely half the state pension – is paid for by employers.

GPs, physiotherapists, nurses and other health professionals issued 11m “fit notes” in 2022-23. In its consultation document, the government said it would create new “work and health advisors” who would be “non-clinical professionals” to conduct “robust and in-depth work and health conversations with patients”. But it did not outline how many officials would be needed and charities raised the possibility that having too few to issue sick notes would create a new waiting list.

Ken Butler, welfare rights adviser at Disability Rights UK, said: “Reasonably enough, employers say that after five working days you must have a fit note. How is that going to work in terms of speed?”

There are also concerns that people who may be too sick to work temporarily will be pushed out of their jobs and forced on to benefits if they are unable to access fit notes.

“I think most employers will accept a sick note, because there’s actually been some kind of diagnosis made by a GP,” Butler said. “So they’ll feel it’s valid. How valid will this be? It just doesn’t seem to make any kind of sense.”

The DWP said: “The Work and Health Programme is part of a much wider offer to help people with disabilities and long-term health conditions start, stay and succeed in work. Our £2.5 billion Back to Work Plan will help over a million people, including those with disabilities and long-term health conditions, to break down barriers to work.”

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Opinion Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aid

If you knew that most of the military aid that Congress approves for Ukraine was being spent right here in the United States, quite possibly in your own congressional district — strengthening our defense production capacity and creating good manufacturing jobs for American workers — would you want your representatives in Washington to support it?

As the House prepares to vote on a new military aid package for Ukraine, the map above details the congressional districts that have been getting Ukraine aid money, including examples of the weapons systems being produced. As this map shows, military aid not only protects Ukrainian civilians and advances U.S. national security — it is also good for workers and manufacturing communities right here at home.

Providing military assistance to Ukraine is the right thing to do. American-made weapons are protecting Ukrainian civilians from Russian bombardment, stopping Russian forces from seizing Ukrainian cities and slaughtering their residents, and decimating the Russian military threat to NATO. It is in both our moral and national security interests to help Ukraine defeat Russia’s unjust aggression.

But our military aid to Ukraine is also revitalizing our defense industrial base, creating hot production lines for the weapons we need to deter potential adversaries and creating manufacturing jobs in the United States. That’s because 90 percent of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has thus far approved is not going to Ukraine but is being spent in the United States, according to an analysis by Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

With a team of researchers at the American Enterprise Institute, I have catalogued the weapons systems being produced in the United States for Ukraine, identifying the congressional districts where they are being made and how House members voted on the funding. We analyzed contracts and news releases and spoke to defense industry experts, diplomats and Pentagon officials to determine where U.S. tax dollars end up. We found that our military aid is providing a major cash infusion to 122 defense production lines in 65 congressional districts across the country that directly benefits American workers — and that doesn’t count all the suppliers that provide these contractors with parts or all the shops, restaurants and other businesses that support the factories rolling out weapons in these districts.

While many members of Congress voted in favor of aid that is going to their districts, many whose congressional districts have been prime beneficiaries have been vocal opponents of Ukraine aid. Here is a regional breakdown of where Ukraine aid is going, along with the members who represent those districts.

A lot of Ukraine aid is going to congressional districts in the South whose members oppose it. For example, Ukraine aid is funding High Mobility Artillery Rocket (HIMARS), Hellfire and Javelin engineering in Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R) Niceville, Fla., district. It is funding HIMARS launchers and VAMPIRE Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems munitions in Rep. Bill Posey’s (R) Melbourne, Fla., district. It is funding HIMARS guidance sets and AN/TPQ-53 radar systems in Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R) Clearwater, Fla., District; HIMARS and Javelin final assembly in Rep. Barry Moore’s (R) Troy, Ala., district; and HIMARS rocket motor production in Rep. Alex Mooney’s (R) Rocket Center, W.Va., district. It is funding production of C-4 explosives for Ukraine in Rep. Diana Harshbarger’s (R) Kingsport, Tenn., district and Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended Range (JDAM-ER) glide bombs in Rep. Josh Brecheen’s (R) Grove, Okla., district.

This despite those members’ opposition to the funding .

Workers in Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R) Lima, Ohio, congressional district are churning out Abrams tanks and Stryker combat vehicles for Ukraine thanks to the military aid he has opposed .

In Rep. Lance Gooden’s (R) Mesquite, Tex., district, Ukraine aid is also funding a brand-new factory that is expected to produce about 20,000 155mm artillery shells a month and employ at least 125 workers after it comes online this year — despite his vote against the aid.

Rep. Scott Perry’s (R) constituents are producing Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, Bradley fire support team vehicles and Hercules recovery vehicles for Ukraine in his York, Pa., district over his objections . Americans are also making Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) and Patriot air defense missiles in Rep. John Joyce’s (R) Letterkenny/Chambersburg, Pa., district, despite his opposition .

Like the previous military aid that Congress has approved, about 80 percent of the new military aid package for Ukraine will go to Americans, CSIS’s Cancian told me — including $23.2 billion to replenish U.S. stockpiles of weapons and equipment we have already provided to Ukraine and $13.8 billion to allow Ukraine to rearm itself through the purchase of weapons and munitions from the U.S. defense industrial base.

In many cases, the weapons being produced are not going to Ukraine at all. Instead, we are sending older versions of the weapons systems to Kyiv from our stockpiles and replacing them with brand-new, more advanced versions — thus using Ukraine aid money to modernize our military. Our aid is restarting production lines for weapons that would otherwise have remained dormant, such as Stinger antiaircraft missiles, which hadn’t been produced since 2005 .

For example: The Patriot air defense system, which has been critical to the defense of both Ukraine and Israel. The new Ukraine aid package includes $1.5 billion to increase production of the most advanced PAC-3 Patriot aerial-attack interceptors. In 2018, the United States was building those missiles at an anemic rate of 350 a year. In December, thanks in part to Ukraine aid, that production increased to 500 a year — and the new aid package will increase it to 650 . Rep. Bruce Westerman (R), whose Camden, Ark., district produces the most advanced of these interceptors, has a mixed record on Ukraine aid — voting against aid in 2022 but for it in 2023 .

The new aid package includes $5.3 billion to reach the Army’s goal producing 100,000 155mm artillery rounds per month — money that will benefit factories receiving Ukraine aid for this purpose in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Bristol, Pa.; Camden, Ark.; Kingsport and Cordova, Tenn.; Middletown, Iowa; Coachella, Calif.; and Mesquite, Tex.

It includes $550 million to produce Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) which are currently being built in Camden, Ark., Lincoln, Neb., and Springboro, Ohio.

It includes $348 million to produced TOW antitank guided missiles which are already being manufactured with Ukraine aid in Diné and Farmington, N.M, and Tucson, Ariz., and $227 million to produce Javelin antitank missiles with existing production lines in Farmington, N.M.; Orlando; Tucson, Ariz.; and Troy, Ala., as well as funding for many other critical weapons systems.

These investments will help protect Ukrainian civilians from Russian aggression, while strengthening America’s defenses so we are prepared to deter future adversaries.

How will members of Congress vote? In a forthcoming essay, I will let you know who voted for — and against — defense jobs in their districts.

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