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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

GDP while undertaking 40.9% They include a weak K-12 education system; inadequate worker skills; a shortage of workers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; restrictions on skilled immigrants; the crumbling infrastructure and a high corporate tax rate. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% of all U.S.