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Getting scant attention is the large number of long-term unemployed over 50 - likely to become a lost generation of workers - and the probability of slow economic growth over the next several years, regardless of what government chooses to do. I take up those two points during my chat with Steve Julian. Available at kpcc.org and podcast (Business Update with Mark Lacter). Transcript is after jump.
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Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.