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In his powerful speech at the AFL-CIO convention last September, the Nobel Prize-winning economist said that we are losing the American dream.

In Richmond, Calif., home prices plummeted 58 percent since their peak. Now the city is trying out a new way to help homeowners refinance—and halt the slide into foreclosure.

Author Hedrick Smith says that, despite record stock prices and roaring corporate profits, America's economic divide is still "costing us dearly."

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