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Intro -- Table of contents -- Basic Statistics of United States, 2015 or latest year available -- Executive summary -- The US economy has rebounded from the crisis -- Productivity has slowed in most industries -- Income inequality continues to increase -- Assessment and recommendations -- After the...

Table 3. Past OECD recommendations on fiscal policy -- Figure 13. Public debt scenarios -- Achieving stronger long-term growth -- Investing in infrastructure -- Figure 14. The growth of the government capital stock has slowed markedly -- Figure 15. Infrastructure quality appears to have deteriorated...

Table 9. Past OECD recommendations on business sector contribution to well-being -- Figure 31. Health un-insurance has dropped since 2013 -- Meeting environmental challenges -- Box 8. Economy-environment linkages in the United States -- Figure 32. Contribution of domestic natural capital to output g...

Figure 1.6. Despite a wide gap between returns on produced assets and borrowing costs, corporations are accumulating financial assets -- The role of innovative activity -- Figure 1.7. Innovative effort seems robust overall, but is shifting toward the private sector -- Figure 1.8. The US ratio of ove...

Chapter 2. Realising and expanding opportunities -- Figure 2.1. Labour quality is not rising fast enough to offset decelerating hours worked -- Skills and opportunity -- Raising attainment in compulsory education -- Box 2.1. Inter-generation income mobility -- Figure 2.2. Income inequality is pronou...

Figure 2.16. Disability rolls have risen substantialy.