COVID-19 threw a wrench in most economic outlook predictions. Pretty much overnight, hundreds of thousands of Americans were suddenly out of work, and years of economic gains since the Great Recession evaporated.
Now, more and more people are getting back to work, trillions of stimulus and relief dollars have been pumped into the economy and experts are beginning to reassess where we stand and what the next five to 10 years could look like.
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