LSE: The Ballpark | How to help left behind regions and workers with Professor Gordon Hanson
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The last 40 years have seen a sharp decline in America’s manufacturing industries with growing joblessness in previously prosperous industrial regions. How and why did this happen, and what can be done to help workers in these “left-behind places”?
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