Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
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We're really going to be focused on economic growth and creating jobs, and that's really going to be a priority.
If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs.
The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.
Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.
The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.
Industry is important, but everyone thinks money is important.
Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times.
Over a long period of time, technological change is something that has been important in reducing manufacturing employment - absolutely and as a share of jobs in the economy.
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.
The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.
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