Interrupting that cycle was a primary goal of President Obama's massive economic-stimulus package, which he championed almost immediately upon entering the White House.
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Many children drop out of school before completing a full primarycycle.
Almost one school-age child in four (23%) has never been to school, or dropped out of school before finishing the primarycycle in this region, where the absolute number of children denied access to school has climbed from 29 million in 2008 to 31 million in 2010.
This was really a classic boom and bust cycle with primary roots in discretionary monetary policies untethered by stable money linked to something real like gold.