The untried path to job creation

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June 6, 2011 - 12:00 AM

President Barack Obama and Gov. Sam Brownback have one big thing in common: both agree that task number one is job creation. They share this priority with politicians of every stripe  — and most of America’s voters.
They also share a problem: neither man knows how to jazz up the economy so that it makes more jobs than there are unemployed workers.
The recipes they have tried failed. Unemployment shot up like a rocket in the last year of the Bush administration when the credit crisis sent the world economy into a tailspin. President Bush responded by pumping…

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