After it failed to meet for nearly a year, President Obama disbanded his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness at the end of January. An elite group of business leaders, the Council met only four times in the two years of its existence, and although it advocated for improvements in education, manufacturing, and energy independence, the group’s primary goal appeared to be to prevent the taxation of the foreign earnings of American firms.
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American business leaders aren’t showing much leadership on societal issues. But it wasn’t always so.
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