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What’s More Important: Long-term Budget Deficits or Unemployment?

What is more important to address — long-term budget deficits or unemployment?
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A Brookings Institute study suggests that austerity has cost the U.S. economy 2.2 million jobs, noting that “such a large contraction of the public-sector during a recovery is unprecedented in recent American economic history.”


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