NY Times Op-Ed: How Not to Revive an Economy

February 13, 2012 in Homepage, Recent News by latoya

By Michael Grabell
Published February 11, 2012, New York Times

The polarized rhetoric of the 2012 election cycle presents voters with a false choice of whether the government can create jobs or should just get out of the way. The real debate should be about which policies work and which don’t.

The stimulus could have been more powerful if the administration had pursued a temporary jobs program similar to the Works Progress Administration, which directly employed eight million people during the Depression.

As it was, states could create temporary jobs programs through a $5 billion emergency welfare fund. Not enough states took advantage of it, but those that did saw real results. Fresno County, Calif., where unemployment was 18 percent, found jobs for 2,000 people who were out of work or underemployed…

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NY Times Op-Ed: How Not to Revive an Economy

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