Word: manns
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Also waiting in the terminal was Nina Mann, a freshman at MIT, who was sitting at a table staring at a notebook...
...Mann said she was heading home to Barrington, R.I., 20 minutes away from Providence. She said she planned to go see her high school volleyball team play, and shop at Target and some other much-missed local shops...
...MANN: Or an income tax credit...
...MANN: There are two sets of issues with respect to labor- market adjustment. One has to do with people who have lost their job in an area where there's no replacement. That has to be addressed through wage insurance, through unemployment insurance, through the portability of health care and pensions. So if you lose your job, you don't lose everything else with it. But there is a different problem: firms do not have an incentive to, say, take people who are programmers and train them to be systems-integration network engineers. We ought to have some kind...
...MANN: The icon of the American work force is Horatio Alger. It's all about the individual. I'm all for the individual, but I think the individual could use a few climbing ropes too. That is why the outsourcing debate is misplaced. It is about long-term competitiveness of the U.S. economy, through the channel of its human resources. We're nothing without the people