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I was born in 1981 and entered the labor force for real in 2003. In the 17 years since that happened the economy has grown most years but full employment has existed for somewhere between three and zero of them. — PolitiTweet.org

For an early millennial born in Jan 1983, their life has consisted of 400 months of economic expansion and 35 month… https://t.co/1Ih5B16rgM

Posted April 11, 2020 Hibernated

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@jonmladd Yeah I take this to be their point ... it was extremely hard for even a very well-informed and highly motivated person to figure out which election outcomes would lead to which results. — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course in world historical terms living standards have still been high! But so much of what passes for conventional pro-market economic analysis depends on a background condition of full employment existing a large majority of the time. — PolitiTweet.org

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