Did you know US productivity actually fell one percent in Q1, after dropping a bit more than that in Q4 2015?

Or that annual US productivity growth from mid-2009 to the present is just 1.3% - the lowest for a seven-year stretch since the late 1970s through the mid-80s?

This weak productivity growth is having a very negative impact on the US economy, yet has hardly made the news it seems.

Just what is the real impact of this trend, and what if anything can be done to reverse it? And are the economists who worry raising productivity will actually be a job killer right?

Please watch SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore discuss this and more with Robert Atkinson, president of think tank the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, who recently authored an ebook on this topic, which you can find here: Think Like an Enterprise: Why Nations Need Comprehensive Productivity Strategies.

But first, view this brief, fast-paced video discussion.