Maintaining Perspective on the Economic Issues of Today

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• 作者：David L. Lindauer
• 关键词：Economic Priorities ; Sluggish economic growth ; Entitlement programs ; Income inequality ; Climate change
• 刊名：Society
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：54
• 期：1
• 页码：2-3
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• 刊物主题：Sociology, general; Political Science;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1936-4725
• 卷排序：54

文摘

As the new administration takes office it is important to maintain some perspective on the economicchallenges facing the nation. The situation is far better today than when President Obama took office in2009 and 2013. Unemployment is close to pre-Great Recession levels, incomes are rising and poverty ratesfalling. We face economic challenges but the most important ones are not international trade or immigration.Sluggish economic growth, a fiscal crisis in our entitlement programs, high inequality in incomes andwealth, and climate change are what should demand our attention.