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The US economy is booming. Public investments in infrastructure, education, clean energy, and more is accelerating labour productivity, growing wages, and spurring employment. Recent economic data shows that \u201cBidenomics\u201d is working and just as a rising tide lifts all boats, the average American worker hasn\u2019t had it so good in a generation or more. But critics are pointing to the high cost of living \u2013 from expensive groceries to housing to health care \u2013 to the rise of precarious work to exploding levels of economic inequality as proof points that the president\u2019s economic policies are in fact debt fuelled chimera and achieving the American dream is fast becoming an impossibility for millions of workers.

Arguing in favour of the resolution is Steven Rattner. He\u2019s the former head of Obama\u2019s Auto Task Force, an Economic Analyst on MSNBC\u2019s Morning Joe, and a contributing writer to The New York Times Op Ed page

Arguing against the resolution is Michael R. Strain,\xa0 the Director of Economic Policy Studies and the at the American Enterprise Institute.

SOURCE: MSNBC

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