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It's not family, or nation, or freedom, or peace, or even God that people all over the world desire, Jim Clifton says.

First and foremost it's a 30-plus-hours-a-week job with a paycheck, the chairman of Gallup Inc. says. Everything else flows from that.

Nations are now competing to overcome what he estimates is a global shortage of 1.8 billion jobs, and the stakes are high.

“The war for global jobs is like World War II: a war for all the marbles,” Clifton writes in his new book, “The Coming Jobs War,” (Gallup Press, 227 pages, $24.95). “The global war for jobs determines the leader of the free world. ... This is America's next war for everything.”

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