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" The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education. "
Elaine Chao
New
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" Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 - employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak. "
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" America's private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way. "
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" News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair. "
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" If we did not have Obamacare, we could've addressed the healthcare crisis in a comprehensive but segmented fashion - meaning that we could have promoted a health savings plan. We could've pushed for tort reform, which added so much more cost to healthcare. "
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" To maintain their own competitiveness, workers need to attain and stay current on the qualifications needed to advance in a constantly evolving economy. "
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" President Obama has been admirably pro-trade in public remarks, but there has been no progress in moving any new free trade agreements to expand exports abroad and create jobs at home. "
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" When there's change, people are always anxious. "
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" America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force. "
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" Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world. "
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" We have many rules and regulations that can be sometimes confusing and complicated. By reaching out to the employer community and educating them on what their responsibilities and obligations are to their work force, that, along, with strong enforcement, is the best way to protect workers. "
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" Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back to work after the Stock Market Crash of '29. Instead, it destroyed trade so effectively that by 1932, American exports to Europe were just a third of what they had been in 1929. World trade fell two-thirds as other nations retaliated. Jobs evaporated. "
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" My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America. "
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" When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty. "
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" Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one. "
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" My parents were very, very strict parents, and they were not used to this new, you know, American custom of letting your children sleep in someone else's house. "
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" The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force. "
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" It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector. "
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" It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need. "
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" Never far from my thoughts are memories of being a little girl in Queens, N.Y., our family of five crowded in a small one-bedroom apartment, struggling to learn English and survive a new life in a new country, America. We humbly and gratefully still recall the kindnesses shown by strangers and neighbors who became new friends. "
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" Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year. "
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