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Unemployment rate may be at a record low, but confidence in the future far short of a record high

It is a sign of the times that in today’s political world, much of the focus is on rescuing the middle class. A generation earlier, the focus was on fighting poverty and improving life for those with the smallest share of the economic pie. But technology and globalization, along with the excessive power of financial capital, have changed all that.

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BY DAVID CRANE
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