Game changers: Five opportunities for US growth and renewal – by Susan Lund, James Manyika, Scott Nyquist, Lenny Mendonca, and Sreenivas Ramaswa. July 2013

“Four years after the official end of the Great Recession, US economic growth remains lackluster. But there is more at work here than simply the business cycle: strains in the labor market were apparent long before 2008. Today, labor-force participation is at a 34-year low, and the United States has two million fewer jobs than it did when the recession began. Weak investment, demographic shifts, and a slowdown in productivity growth are dampening the economy’s trajectory…But the United States does not have to resign itself to sluggish growth…[this report] identifies specific catalysts that can add hundreds of billions of dollars to annual GDP and create millions of new jobs by 2020.”