workers had risen 20 percent over the life of the administration, while inflation averaged only 1.8 percent for the decade of the 1950s. The strikes that so crippled the nation in the Truman years had been reduced by half. Unemployment insurance and social security had been expanded, and builders had erected more than a million new houses a year for the previous eight years—a record—and the government offered more home mortgages than ever. New highways were spooling out across the land. And yet the government had passed tax cuts and kept careful control of the federal budget. The Union itself
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