Ms JOHNSON: I would like to be able to go to work and do a fair day's work and come home, and not have to draw unemployment or have my unemployment run out on me, but there's just no place to work right now.

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Not all women do want to go back to work, which may be every bit as demanding as looking after children and far more competitive.

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If the goal is to make the professors better off, then restricting their opportunity to do work that they value by enforcing a minimum wage rule is not the way to go about it.

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If orders are slack, rather than tell workers not to come in tomorrow the factory boss schedules some of them to go to dealerships to do repair work.

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Try to think of the last article you read about young people who do not go to college that used the intellectual demands of college-level work as an explanation.

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But it is important to remember that there are significant numbers for whom this does not work - who cannot or do not want to go online.

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And my greetings here go not just to you but to the families that make it possible for you to do the work that you do.

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So yes, while we have a long way to go, we have more work to do to rebuild our economy -- yes, we are not finished, but today, millions of folks are collecting a paycheck again.

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Or how do you foresee that, alas, it may not work if the general in command on the ground has to go through both the United Nations in New York and the African Union in Addis Ababa?

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