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Late last week, I spoke with former SEIU president and current Georgetown fellow/fiscal commission member Andy Stern about hosting a series of pieces laying out different ideas to kick-start job creation. The idea here is not to see how many compromises can dance on the head of the congressional pin; it's to see what exactly different experts think needs to be done.

The first piece comes, naturally enough, from Andy Stern. In the coming days, there'll also be pieces from Moody's Mark Zandi, CEPR's Dean Baker, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's David Walker and others. Here's Stern: