What Adds Up, What Doesn't, In Trump's Econ. Plan

Lee Ohanian San Francisco Chronicle November 17, 2016

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President-elect Donald Trump’s economic vision for America is an unprecedented and unlikely combination of economic policies from both the far left and the far right that he argues will right America’s economic ship. Trump claims that his policies of trade restrictions, immigration restrictions, tax cuts, and higher federal government spending will create 25 million new jobs and will nearly double the current economic growth rate over the next decade.

These policies have given hope to a large group of voters who blame globalization and government for declining economic opportunities and lower incomes that are affecting a growing number of Americans. But several of Trump’s policies provide nothing more than a false sense of hope, particularly to those workers who are the least skilled, and who are the most vulnerable to economic dislocations arising from globalization and technological change.

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What Adds Up, What Doesn't, In Trump's Econ. Plan

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