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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Working Scared in America and the Great Recession | |
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| The "Hurricane Katrina" of Recessions | |
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| The Sudden Collapse and Painful Aftermath | |
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| Did Unemployed Workers Recover? | |
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| Bleak Outlooks | |
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| A Silent Mental Health Epidemic | |
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| A World of Hurt for the Long-Term Unemployed | |
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| Bitter Legacies | |
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| Is the American Worker Disposable? | |
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| What Happened to the Employer/Employee Compact? | |
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| Four Forces Downsizing the American Worker | |
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| Globalization and Offshoring | |
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| Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring | |
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| Deindustrialization to Knowledge Economy | |
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| Deunionization | |
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| Education and Training Gaps | |
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| Education Spending P-20 | |
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| Job Training Programs for the Unemployed | |
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| Training at Work | |
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| Transforming American Attitudes | |
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| New American Workplace Realities | |
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| Declining Satisfaction at Work | |
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| The Work-Family Imbalance | |
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| Learning at Work | |
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| An Unhealthy Insurance Trend | |
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| A Workplace Divided | |
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| A Workforce in Transition | |
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| Misery and Bleak Expectations for Older Unemployed Workers | |
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| Last Fired, Never Rehired | |
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| The Devastating Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment | |
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| Ending Retirement as We Knew It | |
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| What Older Workers Need | |
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| Not So Golden Years | |
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| Unfulfilled Expectations for Recent College and High School Graduates | |
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| Hit Hard by the Great Recession | |
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| Left Out of the Labor Market | |
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| A Disappointing Start for College Graduates | |
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| Mountains of Debt | |
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| More Grinders Than Slackers | |
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| Are High School and College Graduates Prepared for Work? | |
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| Employers' Views | |
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| Does Education Serve the Needs of Employers? How Much Should It? | |
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| Next-Generation Education Reforms | |
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| Unfinished Business: Recovering from the Great Recession | |
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| Bold Actions Battle the Financial Crisis | |
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| A Painfully Slow Recovery Yields Disappointment | |
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| Policy Gridlock | |
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| Election-Year Policy and Politics | |
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| Frustration and Protest | |
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| Digging Out of the Ditch | |
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| Direct Job Creation | |
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| Infrastructure and Energy Grid Investments | |
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| Public Service Jobs | |
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| Bolster and Refocus the Workforce Development System | |
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| Shifting to Top Gear | |
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| Restoring the Shattered Dreams of American Workers | |
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| A New Workforce Paradigm | |
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| Assumptions, Expectations, and Hopes | |
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| Four National Priorities | |
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| Reform Education to Prepare Students for Careers | |
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| Expand Lifelong Learning Opportunities for Workers | |
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| Replace Unemployment Insurance with Reemployment Insurance | |
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| Establish a Renewed Worker-Employer Compact | |
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| Strengthening Advance Warning of Layoffs and Assistance | |
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| Reinvigorate Workplace Family-Friendly and Flextime Policies | |
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| Restoring Balance and Shared Sacrifice to Achieve Greater Prosperity | |
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| Appendix: Work Trends: Americans' Attitudes about Work, Employers, and Government, 1998-2012 | |
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| Significant Works | |
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| Index | |