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Democrats Don’t Want to Talk About the Economy

At the debates, the candidates didn’t tussle over unemployment.
Source: Carlo Allegri / Reuters

Over four hours of debate among what felt like a thousand Democratic candidates, a few notable topics scarcely came up. There was no heated tussle over jobs plans. No argument over how to set the national debt on a better path, and no proposals to balance the budget or change the country’s entitlement structure. There was less discussion of getting work to America’s

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