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Title: The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It’s Automation.

*Author:* Claire Cain Miller

*Source:* NY Times

*Date:* Dec 21, 2016

*Summary: *No candidate talked much about automation on the campaign trail. Technology is not as convenient a villain as China or Mexico, there is no clear way to stop it, and many of the technology companies are in the United States and benefit the country in many ways. “Over the long haul, clearly automation’s been much more important — it’s not even close,” said Lawrence Katz http://scholar.harvard.edu/lkatz/biocv, an economics professor at Harvard who studies labor and technological change.

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