Mr.Obama acknowledged that government initiatives cannot completely solve the unemployment problem, and that the private sector will have to create large numbers of new jobs.

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It may be that they will move towards a service economy without ever having a large industrial sector.

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Other large service sector companies, like McDonald's, will pay workers at company on locations for the next two weeks.

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The result is a disproportionately large public sector that provides one in three jobs and two-thirds of economic output.

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