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<p>WASHINGTON — Under new legislation introduced by a group of Senate Democrats on Thursday, American employers would be required to warn their employees and affected communities before moving any jobs overseas.</p> <p>The Jobs for America Act (search) was introduced in response to President Bush's annual economic report, released Monday, in which he highlighted the benefits of sending jobs to other countries.</p>

February 12, 2004, 4:04 AM EST WASHINGTON -- Gregory Mankiw, President Bush's chief economic adviser, gained recognition as a Harvard college professor for writing a popular textbook that explained complex economic principles in clear and precise language. But now he's finding that being too clear and precise in the political world can land a person in a lot of hot water. Not only Democrats but the top Republican in the House are castigating Mankiw for comments he made on the hot-button political issue of the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign countries (snip) Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press

Who is Gregory Mankiw, the 44-year-old Harvard professor nominated this week as U.S. President George W. Bush's new chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers? The key facts seem to be these. He is highly intelligent, wide-ranging in his economic expertise, and an excellent writer. He is a "New Keynesian" and named his dog Keynes. (This we see as very important.) His mentors have been bright and prominent economists, such as Larry Summers, former treasury secretary, and Alan Blinder, formerly of the Federal Reserve. From his early 20s, Mankiw has been close to the powerful. "Choose your mentors well," is...

W.House's Mankiw-exports, not imports, hurt US jobs Friday November 21, 11:31 am ET COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov 21 (Reuters) - White House economic aide Gregory Mankiw said on Friday U.S. jobs were taking more of a hit from declining U.S. exports than from competition from lower-priced foreign imports. "The decline in U.S. exports is where the jobs are lost rather than being lost to competition from imports," Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told the Greater Colorado Springs Economic Development Corp. Because of this, he said, "I'm more worried about slow growth in Japan than rapid...