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Almost three years ago we first highlighted the real math behind the surging entitlement class that America has become. So why does a large portion of the population choose not to work when there are many jobs available? The answer is simple.

I’m heading off to Kansas City for a couple of days for a Kauffman Foundation conference for economic policy bloggers. As usual, posting will continue. I went to a version of this event two years ago, and I have to say that at the time I didn’t really get what Kauffman was all about—it’s a foundation for “entrepreneurship” which just kind of sounded like BS to me.

The upswing in Mexican manufacturing is building a strong case for either of Canada’s largest railways to consider purchasing Kansas City Southern in order to gain greater access to the emerging market, one analyst says. Kansas City Southern [KCS] has long been thought to be attractive to either Canadian National Railway or its smaller rival Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., either as a potential acquisition or through deeper partnership.

Evan Soltas: The Anecdote Gap: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran opened the Kauffman Foundation's Annual Economic Bloggers Forum with a short video address. And how he did so captured a critical gap between politics and policymaking.

20130412 Pre-Reading for Kauffman Foundation 2013 Webloggers Forum Shoebox: http://goo.gl/171UB Livestream for 2013 Kauffman Foundation Economic Webloggers' Forum

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