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From YouTube: Meet Your Council - Peter Orazem
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A
Was
born
in
ames,
my
father
got
his
doctorate
in
economics
here
in
1956.
I
was
born
in
november
of
nineteen
fifty
five
and
we
moved
to
Manhattan
Kansas,
probably
when
I
was
around
nine
months
old
and
so
I
grew
up
in
Manhattan
Kansas
and
then
got
a
job
here
after
I
finished
grad
school,
they
employ
me
at
Iowa,
State
University
in
the
Department
of
Economics.
It's
a
department
that
I
think
I
fit
very
well
both
in
terms
of
my
father's
background
in
agricultural
economics
and
my
own
link
to
the
department.
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My
major
professor
was
t
paul,
schultze
TW
schultz.
His
father
was
the
department
chair
back
in
the
heyday
when
we
had
at
one
time
or
another,
three
Nobel
laureates
on
the
staff
and
T
can
t
paul.
Schultze
was
also
born
in
ames,
so
I
have
a
both
a
genetic
and
an
academic
link
to
the
town.
Well,
I
teach
economics.
My
primary
area
is
labor
economics
with
labor
economics,
I've
been
doing
a
lot
of
work
with
economic
development,
both
in
the
United
States
in
rural
areas
and
also
in
internationally.
So
that's
my
primary
area
of
emphasis.
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Most
of
my
work
has
been
in
education,
so
why
do
people
go
to
school?
How
long
do
they
go
to
school
and
how
much
do
they
get
in
return
for
their
investment
and
then
I
also
dabble
in
lots
of
other
areas
over
time,
depending
on
my
interests,
I
have
a
garden,
and
that
involves
an
annual
battle
with
deer.
I
now
have
a
10
foot
high
fence,
because
the
6-foot
high
fence
turned
out
not
to
be
sufficient.
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What
I
found
out
was
that
it
was
just
enough
of
a
challenge
for
about
an
eight-point
buck
to
jump
into
the
garden
over
a
six-foot
fence
land
in
the
squash,
because
that
was
a
nice
soft
place
to
land
meander
through
the
tomatoes
in
order
to
get
to
the
beets
in
the
Swiss
chard.
So
the
10
foot
fence,
at
least
so
far,
is
kept
them
at
bay.
A
I
think
my
favorite
thing
about
the
aims
community
is
the
obviously
the
university
both
in
terms
of
the
fact
that
you
know
that
pays
the
bills,
but
also
that
it
keeps
the
city
young,
and
so
we
have
about
half
the
population
than
our
students.
We
get
a
lot
of
cultural
events
that
come
through
town
because
of
the
university
and
as
a
result,
there's
always
something
interesting
and
innovative
going
on
and
for
a
small
town
like
this
I
think.
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That's
a
luxury
I,
also
like
the
fact
that
this
particular
community
has
a
lot
of
people,
doing
lots
of
interesting
things
both
in
the
private
sector
entrepreneurially
and
in
and
in
the
academic,
community
and
I.
Think
that
keeps
me
young.
So
even
though
I'm
a
little
bit
old
I'm
still
excited
to
go
to
work
every
day
and
I'm
excited
to
go
home
and
see
what
what
what
the
community
is
offering
on
that
particular
day.
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I
really
enjoyed
being
on
the
City
Council
in
part
because
of
the
staff
I
think
I've
never
not
been
able
to
come
up
with
an
answer
from
the
staff.
The
staff
seems
to
have
anticipated
everything
that
I'm
thinking
of
I
think
that's
an
exceptionally
professional
and
well-informed,
a
city,
employee
staff
that
we
have,
and,
and
also
just
what
you
guys,
do
and
try
in
terms
of
trying
to
keep
the
city
in
form
that
I've
really
appreciated
that.