Given that they might face each other in a Senate bout in 2014, I think it’s worth noting two approaches to job creation from U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin of Little Rock and U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor.

Griffin, as I noted earlier, thinks if we just deregulate to let corporations pollute a lot more and workers have fewer protections on the jobs many jobs will be created.

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Pryor thinks the U.S. ought to build roads, bridges, railroads, airports and other public infrastructure. (See jump.)

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