Defending Reaganomics

Ralph R. Reiland argues that the Reagan administration's policies reversed the nation's economic decline, cut unemployment, and reduced poverty.

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June 17, 2004, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


Ralph R. Reiland argues that regardless of Reagan’s indifference to urban problems, his “tax cuts, incentives, and deregulation unleashed one of the strongest and longest economic expansions in U.S. history--an expansion that cut unemployment, increased business investment, raised productivity, reduced poverty and reversed the overall decline in the purchasing power of American paychecks.”

Thanks to Bryan Conn

Monday, June 14, 2004 in The American Enterprise

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