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Remember The Here And Now

Apr 5th, 2010 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Policy Matters

But you cannot say this often enough: Good-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups. And where do start-ups come from? They come from smart, creative, inspired risk-takers. How do we get more of those? There are only two ways: grow more by improving our schools or import more by recruiting talented immigrants.

Yeah, we have to rely on people who are now elementary students or on people we import from overseas because, naturally, those of us who were born here and have already grown to adulthood are entirely lacking in smarts, creativity, inspiration or the stomach to take a risk.

Well, gee willies, Tom. What about the rest of us? Or don’t we count?

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Another One Bites The Dust

Sep 28th, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Policy Matters

Whatever may have been the case historically — say, for the first 200 years of U.S. history — strong economic growth does not preclude the persistence of poverty. It doesn’t even necessarily slow it down.

In fact, at various times during the first few years of this century, strong economic growth coexisted comfortably with rising poverty.

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