StateImpact’s been on the campaign trail! And the race in the Second Congressional District is looking like a nail-biter. Democrat Ann McLane Kuster is running against incumbent Republican Congressman Charlie Bass in a rematch following her narrow loss in 2010.

Given the interest in this particular election–a fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republican versus a progressive Democrat who stresses her family’s “Yankee frugality” and “Republican roots”– we thought we’d go ahead and pop in on the candidates this week to hear their thoughts on the economy.

Last night, we followed Kuster to the Plymouth Area Democrats meeting at the town’s senior center.

Kuster gave the sympathetic crowd her stump speech, and followed-up with Q&A time. The economy came up quite a bit in her speech, but for our purposes, here’s a highlight:

“What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today, for prosperity tomorrow. Education, I couldn’t be in a better place to talk about education, because we all believe in it here in the Plymouth region [the home of Plymouth State University]. But we need to invest in people’s lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

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