1. Short title This Act may be cited as the 21st Century Jobs Act . 2. Findings and sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In the year 2018, funding for research and development in science and technology in the United States was $124.7 billion, or approximately 0.6 percent of the gross domestic product. (2) In the year 1964, the United States spent approximately 2 percent of gross domestic product on research and development in science and technology. (3) Public funding for research and development in science and technology financed a majority of the innovations that powered growth in the United States after World War II, including digital computing and modern pharmaceutical science. (4) The United States currently ranks ninth in the world for total percentage of gross domestic product used for research and development in science and technology and twelfth in the world for public funding for research and development in science and technology. (5) Funding for research and development in science and technology is concentrated in a small number of geographic regions in the United States. (6) Established technology centers that promote research and development in science and technology are extremely crowded, have high real estate costs, and are in locations that require long commutes for many of the researchers at such centers. (7) The private sector has a limited ability or desire to invest outside of such centers, which limits the potential for growth in science and technology, including the availability of employment opportunities in such industries. (8) Increasing public funding for research and development in science and technology to 1 percent of the gross domestic product would significantly increase the rank of the United States with respect to funding for such research and development among developed countries. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of the Congress that amounts provided through this Act will be used— (1) in a manner that is similar to breakthrough-focused, project