This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, April 26, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Slugish economic growth means relatively fewer jobs, but what are some of the government

sponsored impediments to jump-starting growth

and entrepreneurial activity?

Ed Glazers, an economist at Harvard University.

We talked about entrepreneurship, regulation, and immigration last month.

In this election season, there's a big focus on jobs as there always is, but it's a little more pronounced this time around.

Brink Lindsay has done a lot of work here at Cato.

If you've participated in some of that related to getting growth

back on track or accepting their low growth that we may have going forward.

But what are some of the things that governments do that hamper entrepreneurship broadly speaking.

You know when I think about the largest unsolved problems facing America, I think of the fact that

when I was born almost 50 years ago, one in 20 prime-aged males,

age 25 to 55, were jobless. Today that number is over 15 percent, an astonishing number,

and that's been a roughly 50 year secular trend.

It always goes a lot a lot during major crises and then it comes back somewhat, but it's

a tripling of the number over the long haul.

And in some sense, every under-employed American

is a failure of entrepreneurial imagination.

And when we think about what's going on in the American economy, there's no sense in which we can

possibly argue that America has ceased to be an economically dynamic place.

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