Recession Could Spawn a Generation of Slackers

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Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government

Charles W. Eliot University Professor

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Recession Could Spawn a Generation of Slackers. Lawrence Summers, November 20, 2013, Video. "Harvard's Larry Summers tells the WSJ's Sara Murray that children of unemployed Americans are at risk of falling behind." Link https://youtu.be/0A-EWyAFKj0

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