MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ) - President Obama’s labor secretary will visit Milwaukee Friday to push for the White House jobs initiative.

Mayor Tom Barrett plans to join Hilda Solis at a construction site at Milwaukee’s Jones Island wastewater plant, to explain how Obama’s array of job funding and tax breaks could put many of Wisconsin’s unemployed back to work.

In announcing the visit, Solis said the president’s plan would upgrade sewer systems, roads, and bridges. She also said the package includes a “national infra-structure bank” which would hand out funds for projects that could reduce pollution and cut utility bills.

The Jones Island project would burn landfill gas, while replacing turbines that burn the more expensive natural gas.

Solis said Wisconsin needs construction jobs, after the state’s builders cut their employment from 120,000 in 2007 to 87,000 this year.