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Rubio calls for ‘common good capitalism’
One of the US’s best-known Catholic politicians has called for a new economic model based on Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum. In a speech at the Catholic University of America, Florida Senator Marco Rubio said America had “drifted far from” Leo’s vision of an economy “in which workers and businesses are not competitors for their share of limited resources, but instead partners in an effort that benefits both and strengthens the entire nation”.
The Republican said that America had “neglected the rights of workers” and the duty of businesses to work for the common good. The economy must be reshaped, Rubio said, so that the market serves “our nation and our people”. (Jordan Bloom, page 14)
