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Opportunity in America: Then and now

Austin Cross Jun 26, 2015
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Opportunity in America: Then and now

Austin Cross Jun 26, 2015
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When you think of postwar America, you might think about unending opportunity and limitless optimism. Were things really as rosy as they seemed back then? And what about now? Is America still an economic promised land?

David Lazarus took these questions to Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School who’s studied the periods at length.

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