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Author: A. Michael Spence, Distinguished Visiting Fellow
July/August 2011
Foreign Affairs
Jobs growth was slow in May, renewing pessimism about the U.S. economy. Spence, a Nobel Prize-winning economist writes that economic growth and employment in the United States have started to diverge, increasing income inequality and reducing jobs for less-educated workers.
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