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Tom Temin, host of the Federal Drive on WTOP’s sister station, Federal News Network, joined John Aaron and Michelle Basch on Wednesday morning to figure out precisely what the move might mean.
In their wake, what’s left? That’s the question at the heart of a new book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, by Peter Temin, an economist from MIT.
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Peter Temin says the world's’ largest economy has roads and bridges that look more like those in Thailand and Venezuela than those in parts of Europe. In his new book, “The Vanishing Middle ...