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Focus On Business: Chris Bollinger on Automation and the Workforce

WEKU | By Bryan Bartlett
Published February 13, 2017 at 9:00 AM EST

In his farewell speech, former President Obama spoke of the "relentless pace of automation that is making good middle class jobs obsolete.  Today, Tom Martin talks with Dr. Chris Bollinger, director of the University of Kentucky's Center of Business and Economic Research, about the impact of automation on the workforce, now and into the future.

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Part two of Tom Martin's conversation with University of Kentucky economist Chris Bollinger.
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