We can talk all we want about aggregate demand and what it will take to pull us out of our jobs and housing depression, but the key to longer term prosperity and American leadership in the world is improving our broken educational system.

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In April, a study in the American Journal of Public Health found that rates of suicide and unemployment in the U.S. have risen and fallen in step over the past nine decades, peaking during the Depression and dropping to all-time lows during the prosperity of the 1990s.

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