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Economic Development in America

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According to Census Bureau data from 2013, about 4.8 million in 2006 and 7.5 Source: INERTIA NATION, New York Times Magazine, December 15, 2013. Economic mobility and geographic mobility have been closely linked for much of American history , so economists find it troubling that migration rates have been in decline lately.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. It gets that from a 2006 Government Accountability Office report that said there were about 42.6 And real estate agents, contractors, and others who are dependent on a boom-bust housing sector which has been mostly a bust in recent years.

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