By Sofia Sanchez University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service A collection of House Democrats and the National Association of Counties urged Congress and the Obama administration Wednesday to support the Local Jobs For America Act, a piece of legislation intended to spur job growth at the local level. “This critical piece of legislation will help put people to work by allocating funds directly to local communities to stimulate job creation in the public and private sector,” said the association's President-elect Glen Whitley. If passed, the bill will provide communities $100 billion over the next two years to prevent businesses and local governments from being forced to cut jobs. "We need more than just Wall Street improving, we need the jobs on main street,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.). In March, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), who chairs the Education and Labor Committee, said that the legislation would create or preserve nearly 1 million jobs. Data released earlier this month shows that 167,000 jobs were added to the labor force last month, marking the strongest job growth since the recession began in December of 2007.