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2White-collar jobs are no longer STABLE/LONG TERM
5BLM if they ever had any is (A loss of reputation or respect as the result of a dishonourable action and bring shame or discredit) and under fire over response to Daniel Penny verdict
6The cities are dangerous risky perilous hazardous precarious
7The gap between rich and NOT RICH is widening
9A social site says: Bitcoin Will violently break (something) into pieces- move so as to hit or collide with something with great force and impact-$100K And FLIP GOLD!
10The health system is becoming progressively worse
11The nation’s infrastructure is (to suddenly fall down or give way or falling down and become unconscious as a result of illness or injury)
12The federal deficit is flying or rising high in the air increasing rapidly above the usual level
13Companies aren’t competitive in global markets because of high American IRS ONES?
16An artillery shell or a very attractive person (typically used toward a woman) or maybe an unexpected and surprising event, especially an unpleasant one
17The schools are Suffering a weakness, especially in a person's character; a shortcoming
DOWN
1“declinism”—the idea that something is fundamentally THIS with the U.S. economy and until it is fixed,
3A headline: Grassley (to remove the internal organs of; disembowel or to deprive of meaning or significance) Chris Wray
4America will neither compete effectively in global markets nor provide an adequate standard of living for its
8America’s list of THESE seems endless
10Strange as it may seem, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism now appears to be obsessed by Not Going Up. But not DNile
14Real wages are THIS like a 1993 A middle-aged man dealing with both unemployment and divorce, William Foster (Michael Douglas) is having a bad day. DOWN
15Productivity growth is NOT UP