The great unmentionable : Mass unemployment in America - World Socialist Web Site
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The great unmentionable: Mass unemployment in America
15 April 2013
Judging by the official political debate and its media reflection in the United States, one would hardly know that the country remains in the grips of the deepest jobs crisis since the Great Depression. Virtually all attention is concentrated, on the one hand, on record stock prices and corporate profits, declared to be proof of a robust economic recovery, and, on the other, the supposed need for ever-deeper cuts in social programs upon which tens of millions of people depend.