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    Small Business and Job Creation

    While the President and Mitt Romney are in dispute over whose programs will do the most to help "small business" create new jobs, they agree that it's crucial to creating jobs.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    While the President and Mitt Romney are in dispute over whose programs will do the most to help "small business" create new jobs, they agree that it's crucial to creating jobs. But is "small business" really the employment engine they claim it is? It's not even clear exactly what "small" really means, and there's evidence that age is more important than size when it comes to job creation. Are the candidates focused on real economics, or are they pandering to the obsolete American myth of "Mom and Pop" setting up shop on "Main Street."

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    Is Small Business a Job Generator?
    1. 0:00Hillary Clinton Takes Blame for Benghazi Security
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    3. 44:54TV Debates: Moving the Needle in an Age of Fragmentation
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Vanessa O'Connell

      Wall Street Journal

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      Robert Litan

      Bloomberg Government

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      John Arensmeyer

      Small Business Majority

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Is Small Business a Job Generator?
    1. 0:00Hillary Clinton Takes Blame for Benghazi Security
    2. 7:36Small Business and Job CreationYou’re reading this
    3. 44:54TV Debates: Moving the Needle in an Age of Fragmentation
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