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A common question: Just where have all the jobs gone?
EMPLOYMENT
Ardon Schambers
Published: December 14, 2009
It is a great debate, but not very productive. If you listen to the politicians, it's the governor's fault, or the tax code, or trade agreements, or we can't compete because of legacy costs driven by union negotiations. They go through the motions to fix the problem, but nothing really happens. It seems the mentality is to try to reverse the system and add some “Band-Aids” that will get us back to some golden time in the past.

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