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The Economic and Social Impact of Language

Mills Scofield

Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. And, in 2010, Arne Duncan announced that 95% of American college students in language classes were taking European languages. Less than 100 American students were studying a language spoken by 193 million people in the world.

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business Review

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP. Jobs Creation Act of 2004. multinational corporations are not competitive.

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How Big Should Government Be?

Harvard Business Review

The author of these words is University of California, Davis economic historian Peter Lindert, who hid them among the data appendices in volume two of his epic 2004 empirical study, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century. in 2010, government spending's share of GDP in the U.S.

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