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How Automation Hurts American Unemployment & Spending

Rapid technological advances will spread a new wave of automation across the U.S., increasing unemployment, depressing American consumer spending and further shrinking the middle class. CHICAGO-(June  17, 2014)-“When a worker is replaced by a machine or computer, a consumer is lost.  The machine or computer that replaces the worker is part of the production cycle, …