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BusinessWeek Economist Mike Mandel writes that a broadband investment in the econ stimulus package could create hundreds of thousands of tech jobs. This is important, because the efficiencies that technology bring often lead to losses in jobs--which is not what this economy needs right now. Mandel writes: This shortfall in communications jobs, however, need not be permanent. A new report from t…