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Review: Jeff Madrick on American Jobs

Ann Kjellberg
Aug 07, 2019
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The United States unemployment rate has fallen well below 4 percent, a rate that looks to some observers like the economy is doing as well as it can. Economist David Blanchflower sees a different picture. His recent book Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone demonstrates that there are still far too few decent jobs in America.

It is the underem…

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