My column, “Give Thanks for Job Creators,” ran in today’s USA Today. The gist is that this Thanksgiving, we should be especially grateful to people who created jobs in 2009. And to be wary of politicians who want to collect (or even hike!) taxes in order to fund job creation schemes. Why not just leave the money with people who create jobs in the first place?
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Laura Vanderkam is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (Portfolio, 2010) and Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill, 2007). She is a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors, and her work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Scientific American, Wired, The American, Portfolio and other publications.
Write to her at lvanderkam at yahoo dot com.