Econ Focus
First Quarter 2017
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Does it matter whether people who lost their homes during the foreclosure crisis come back to the housing market?
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Robots for the Long Haul
There are 1.8 million heavy truck and tractor-trailer drivers in the United States. Will self-driving trucks soon mean the end of many of those jobs?
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Too Small To Succeed?
The hard facts of education economics are putting some small colleges at risk
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