Michael Winship: Reading, Writing and Recession

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"The states are paring away at their future noses to save their current financial faces, say leading academics, denying dollars to higher education when it’s more of an absolute necessity than ever, providing jobs, retraining those who’ve been laid off, generating the basic and applied research that in the past has driven a country once world-renown for invention and productivity. As one of those who spoke at the Arizona Board of Regents meeting said, “You cannot cut yourself out of a recession. You must grow your way out.”

Exactly, and this is also why social programs like contraceptives need to be in the stimulus bill.

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http://potshotpolitics.ning.com/