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" What out country is facing right now is a skills gap. "
Elaine Chao
Gap
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Out
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" I know that some people, when they are growing up and they - as a person of color in a majority community - that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange. "
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" Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest. "
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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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" Capital available for individuals to start and expand businesses would increase with regulatory and strategic tax reforms, like reducing marginal rates, repealing the alternative minimum tax, and making the U.S. the most welcoming place for employers to relocate and create jobs. "
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" Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses. "
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" To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector. "
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" As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.' "
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" Where public pensions are concerned, many jurisdictions are running out of road. "
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" Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world. "
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" I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities. "
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" The work of these women doesn't end when they return home from overseas, as one goal of the Peace Corps' mission is to help promote a better understanding of other cultures here in the United States. "
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" In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks. "
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" When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists urged him to veto it. Tragically, the president ignored their pleas. "
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" While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs. "
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" When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers. "
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" Taxpayers should demand that their states honestly assess public pension plans, accurately measure the assets and liabilities, and take steps to provide fair benefits to public employees that limit taxpayers' liability. "
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" There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them. "
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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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" To better deal with shortages of qualified applicants now and in the future, government policy makers need to acknowledge that government job training programs could stand improvement. "
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" The OPPA route is nothing new. It follows the decades-old liberal agenda on trade, health care, global warming, and mass unionization. That agenda has never brought prosperity to workers. "
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" Deep in the heart of Kentucky's rugged Eastern Mountain region, there lives a woman who has fascinated and inspired me for two decades. She is known locally these days as 'Mayor Nan' - the octogenarian chief executive of Hazard and advocate for its 5,467 residents. "
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" Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' They're looking for less government spending, lower taxes, and good jobs. "
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" We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism. "
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" My parents were very supportive. "
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" I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country. "
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" In campaigns, lots of things will be said, and what they have said about my husband is just simply not true. "
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" Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression. "
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" The Democratic Party's governing elite has long believed there is no problem that European-style policies cannot cure. "
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