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Dealing with the effects of globalization will be a catch-all for the Dems’ legislative agenda, according to Pelosi:

That’s what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told bloggers this morning Congressional Democrats are calling their set of economic proposals on everything from the minimum wage to increasing access to higher education, from affordable housing to developing “green collar” job opportunities. It’s a smart tack to offer Americans security from the ups and downs of globalization without using language that vilifies immigration, trade, or internationalism. In fact, it’s what the Prospect termed a new progressive populism in our election 2006 recap issue. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) explained, “When America looks at the globalized world, we see an America that’s not prepared. We don’t have a health care system that works in the globalized world. We don’t have a pension system that works in the globalized world. We don’t have a wage system that works in the globalized world.”

It seems like a smart tack. I just wonder if things like this actually resonate outside the Beltway. But then again, even Tom Freidman’s talking about “green collar” jobs, and a few gazillion people have bought his latest book. So I think it’s probably fair to say that most people “get” globalization and the effects that it’s having in their communitiies.