So these are also things that you need to take do to promote that, you know, healthy, economically secure, personally secure community, state environment for people to thrive, to have an opportunity. Well, so the, the reason this interests me in Massachusetts is because Massachusetts has been doing this pretty thoroughly for a very long time, including things like the early attempts to get universal health care, which, you know, the ACA later got patterned on. And it does strike me that Massachusetts is living that philosophy that in fact, you try and make things good for people, you create a roaring economy. (08:27–08:41)
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