Since these are all questions I’ve written about before, I’ll plug in links for those who want to dig deeper. More recently, employment rates for prime-age women also have trended down. The difference is even more extreme for women: U.S. women’s employment rates are down four percentage points since 2000; German women’s are up eight points! There are two major inputs into GDP growth: the labor force and productivity, or output per hour. That said, I do think there’s one thing that would probably help: public investment.

Source: Washington Post October 27, 2016 10:04 UTC