(Source: PBS News Hour, December 1, 2016)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In recent decades, American productivity growth has slowed. Yale University’s Jacob Hacker has a possible explanation: the country’s outdated and deteriorating infrastructure. Hacker, co-author of “American Amnesia,” argues the U.S. has forgotten the role government plays in engineering prosperity, and that public investment got us where we are today.
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