And we need to continue to take necessary actions to see that the economy grows, to invest in the middle class, to provide the security that the middle class needs so that it can be the foundation of the American economic engine of the 21st century just as it was in the 20th.

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And on that question, research from the Kauffman Foundation leaves no doubt: New firms are the main engine of job creation in this country.

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She has been on several nonprofit boards and is now on the boards of Arts Engine, Grove With Me, and the Alpern Family Foundation.

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We have to rely on a new foundation on which America can harness what has made our economy the engine and the envy of the world -- the talent and drive and creativity of our people.

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David Edgington for his work for the industrial heritage of the stationary engine and Lady Judy Martin, who is the director of the Young Persons Concert Foundation.

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