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Originally Posted by chuck22b
The Economic Policy Institute, a non-partisan, economic/social think-tank wrote a publication on economic policies on issues that they believe would revive America's desperate economy:
The main issues they cover are:
- Healthcare
- Retirement
- Workers
- Infrastructure
- Manufacturing
- Poverty
- Work and Family
- Trade and Globalization
http://www.epi.org/policy/revive/epi_plan_to_revive_the_american_economy.pdf (broken link)
Take it as you will... but I think understanding the issues and the problems is a good step in the right direction.
-chuck22b
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Unfortunately economists do not make resource allocation decisions, the businessmen and the politicians do that, few of the latter are economists.
Nonetheless, a good list.
Health care and retirement are burdens, the variable linking the rest is productivity.
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