Labor, Community Groups Quiz Dean, Edwards (social justice is important)

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Democrats-2004.html

Labor, Community Groups Quiz Dean, Edwards
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Filed at 11:35 p.m. ET
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopefuls John Edwards and Howard Dean each promised Sunday that he would convene a summit on social justice within 90 days of taking office.

All nine Democratic contenders and President Bush were invited to the Granite State Organizing Project's forum on housing, health care, jobs and education. Edwards and Dean were the only two who attended, though others sent written responses to the coalition, which includes 34 religious, labor and community groups in southern New Hampshire.<snip>

Earlier, in Plaistow, Dean announced a plan to boost small businesses by creating a Small Business Capital Corp. The corporation would guarantee $1 billion in loans and create 100,000 new jobs in the first three years, he said.``Small business is America's most powerful engine of economic growth,'' he said

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1. Music to my Ears

Small Business Loans...

I've been waiting for a good small business program to be created for five years...

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2. the fine print

on Dean's "loans" to small businesses - when he says he wants to create and builld a "secondary market" for these loans - do you understand what that means?