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  •  one outsourcing idea (none / 0)

    (beyond my educational grants one): something that would punish companies that take jobs overseas -- requiring state pension funds to divest from companies that have moved X jobs out of Pennsylvania and out of the country in the past five years?  in the future?
    •  Divestiture (none / 0)

      that is an outstanding idea!

      I also think we ought to push Congress to pass legislation to raise import duties upon products produced by corporations that have outsourced those jobs.  But I know this is irrelevant to referenda, and would meet all sorts of objections anyway (some perhaps valid) about the damage it might do to the US economy.  But divestiture is by contrast a no-brainer.

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