The Economy

7/20/03: "Put Americans Back to Work," Connecticut Post, July 20, 2003

Hard work yields great rewards. Virtually all of us have heard a variation of this at some point in our lives. In America, we are told, opportunity is abundant for those willing to work for it.

But it’s hard to sell that line to the 9.4 million Americans – including nearly 90,000 Connecticut residents – who are out of a job today. These Americans are ready and willing to work. But cutbacks in virtually every field, from investment banking to construction, continue to push qualified Americans off of payrolls and onto unemployment rolls.

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