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Paul Osterman is Nanyang Technological University Professor of Human Resources and Management at the MIT Sloan School and author of Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone.
Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.
Today’s high unemployment isn’t a result of a lack of skilled labor but rather a slow recovery.
Far too many American adults work in low-wage jobs. Better jobs seem the obvious solution.
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