Politician

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.

The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.

Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.

Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned.

Where public pensions are concerned, many jurisdictions are running out of road.

Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development - an understanding which will make my tenure as Peace Corps director, I hope, a very special one.

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.

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.

To maintain their own competitiveness, workers need to attain and stay current on the qualifications needed to advance in a constantly evolving economy.

When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.

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.

The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education.

Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for growth that include investing in their own skills-training efforts to enable a broader pool of applicants.

America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits.

For significant job creation to occur, prospective entrepreneurs and current business owners must not fear the future or be under assault from their own government in the present.

Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.