One such question is why government policy has failed to narrow the jobs gap—the gap between the jobs people want and those that are actually available. Globalization and technological change have led to higher standards of living, but that is of little comfort for people whose jobs have been displaced. “Part of the political failure around globalization was an inability to understand how badly some people were being hurt even as society as a whole did better,” Strongin said. “Dealing with that pain should have been a major focus of policy; instead, policy tried to pretend it could make the
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