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HIRA: I'm all for the idea of human-capital credit. But you're supposing there's all this opportunity and some kind of skills mismatch. There aren't good data coming out of firms saying there's a lot of job openings in the U.S., and we're looking for people, we just can't find them.

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

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