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How to help left behind regions and workers

How to help left behind regions and workers

Update: 2025-10-28
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Contributor(s): Professor Gordon Hanson | The decline of manufacturing and the acceleration of technological disruption have concentrated joblessness in distressed regions and blocked many workers from access to good jobs. In this lecture Gordon Hanson addresses the origins of job loss, the reasons for its geographic concentration, and what we’ve learned about policies intended to help left-behind places.
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How to help left behind regions and workers

How to help left behind regions and workers

Professor Gordon Hanson