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Elaine Chao
American
Politician
Born:
Mar 26
,
1953
America
Country
Creation
Government
Job
Work
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I know that some people, when they are growing up and they - as a person of color in a majority community - that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange.
Elaine Chao
Strange
People
Some People
Community
Bit
Out
Some
Color
Feel
Know
Majority
Left
Up
Person
May
Growing
Growing Up
My parents were very supportive.
Elaine Chao
Parents
Supportive
Were
Very
What out country is facing right now is a skills gap.
Elaine Chao
Country
Out
Facing
Skills
Gap
Now
Right
In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks.
Elaine Chao
Weeks
Normal
Times
Unemployed
Eight
Average
Workers
Washington policymakers have to understand the adverse implications of their actions on job creation, and they must reorder some of their priorities.
Elaine Chao
Job
Creation
Job Creation
Must
Some
Implications
Adverse
Policymakers
Understand
Priorities
Actions
Washington
Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.
Elaine Chao
Healthy
Year
Lost
Every
Has-Been
Jobs
Some
Rate
Lay
Fail
Simultaneous
New
Economy
Greater
Always
New Jobs
Been
Off
Unemployment
Unemployment Rate
America
Offset
Burst
Low
Created
Workers
Measures
Businesses
Even
Suffer
Nearly
Millions
Deep in the heart of Kentucky's rugged Eastern Mountain region, there lives a woman who has fascinated and inspired me for two decades. She is known locally these days as 'Mayor Nan' - the octogenarian chief executive of Hazard and advocate for its 5,467 residents.
Elaine Chao
Me
Woman
Heart
Rugged
Locally
Eastern
Inspired
Hazard
Days
Executive
She
Known
Advocate
Chief
Chief Executive
Mountain
Decades
Mayor
Region
Who
Fascinated
Deep
Lives
Residents
Kentucky
Two
Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there.
Elaine Chao
Work
Day
School
Surgeon
Father
Memphis
Born
Hazard
She
Graduate
Moved
James
Aspiring
Medical
Her
Medical School
Recent
When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.
Elaine Chao
Peace
Men
First
Congress
Assumed
Corps
Would
Would-Be
Some
Only
Proposed
Volunteers
Peace Corps
The work of these women doesn't end when they return home from overseas, as one goal of the Peace Corps' mission is to help promote a better understanding of other cultures here in the United States.
Elaine Chao
Work
Home
Peace
Women
Better
Understanding
Other
Corps
States
Promote
Better Understanding
Mission
Return
Return Home
Goal
Overseas
Cultures
End
Help
Peace Corps
United
United States
Here
Perhaps the original layaway angel knew from experience, or simply deduced, that people resorting to the old-fashioned installment method of layaway may be struggling financially.
Elaine Chao
Experience
People
Angel
Financially
Struggling
Installment
Simply
Knew
Perhaps
Method
May
Old-Fashioned
Original
Though the National Bureau of Economic Research deemed the recession to have ended in June 2009, to most Americans, that conclusion seems not to square with reality.
Elaine Chao
Reality
National
Research
Recession
Though
Seems
Economic
Most
Conclusion
June
Square
American
Ended
Bureau
Deemed
Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 - employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak.
Elaine Chao
Three
Previous
Higher
Employment
Years
Began
Than
After
Average
Deepest
Peak
Four
We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.
Elaine Chao
Positive
World
Nation
Control
Our
Futures
See
Some
About
More
Individual
Through
Over
Prism
Than
American
Which
Media
Largely
The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.
Elaine Chao
Job
Young
Creation
Job Creation
Entrepreneurs
Driven
Attention
Merit
Greatest
Special
Businesses
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.
Elaine Chao
Future
Government
Business
Fear
Job
Own
Creation
Job Creation
Significant
Must
Entrepreneurs
Prospective
Occur
Current
Owners
Business Owners
Assault
Present
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.
Elaine Chao
Today
Future
Needs
Approach
Deficits
Boost
Future Generations
Federal
Generations
New
New Approach
Economy
Does
Off
America
Doom
Being
Paying
Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.
Elaine Chao
Isolation
Economy
Policymakers
Does
Exist
Elected
Need
To maintain their own competitiveness, workers need to attain and stay current on the qualifications needed to advance in a constantly evolving economy.
Elaine Chao
Own
Evolving
Stay
Constantly
Attain
Advance
Maintain
Economy
Qualifications
Current
Workers
Need
Competitiveness
Needed
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.
Elaine Chao
War
Time
Poverty
Lyndon
President
State
Local
Local Governments
Sector
Johnson
Federal
Accelerate
Around
Private
Governments
Private Sector
Began
Declaring
Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.
Elaine Chao
Confidence
Economic
Entrepreneurship
Expansion
Fuel
Capital
Credit
As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree.
Elaine Chao
Job
Degree
College
Tough
Worse
Find
College Degree
Could
Track
Without
Get
Trying
Graduates
Planned
Many
Careers
Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.
Elaine Chao
Service
Government
Health
Benefits
Typical
Sector
Dream
Pension
Only
Lifetime
Generous
Most
Health Benefits
Private
Private Sector
Getting
Workers
Government at all levels has kicked the fiscal can down the road for far too long.
Elaine Chao
Government
Long
Down
Too
Kicked
Road
Fiscal
Far
Down The Road
Levels
Where public pensions are concerned, many jurisdictions are running out of road.
Elaine Chao
Out
Running
Pensions
Road
Concerned
Where
Public
Many
The OPPA route is nothing new. It follows the decades-old liberal agenda on trade, health care, global warming, and mass unionization. That agenda has never brought prosperity to workers.
Elaine Chao
Health
Prosperity
Care
Nothing
Liberal
Brought
Follows
Never
Mass
New
Global
Global Warming
Health Care
Trade
Agenda
Warming
Nothing New
Workers
Route
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