Cheers for President Biden\u2019s focus on Job Growth! Getting jobless people back to work certainly beats extended unemployment benefits, though these should be available as long as joblessness remains high.\u00a0 However, the general fiscal stimulus that seems to be the President\u2019s strategy for job growth is not the most efficient or effective way to create jobs and put people back to work.<\/p>\n
Direct government job creation\u2014based on updated versions of New Deal programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration\u2014can work faster,\u00a0create more jobs per dollar of stimulus spending, better target the job creation effect of the spending where unemployment is highest, and ensure a fairer distribution of employment opportunities. This strategy\u2014like the New Deal approach–would not only benefit the jobless but repair and enhance the nation\u2019s environmental, physical, and cultural resources.<\/p>\n
A permanent government job creation program for unemployment that exceeds the usual, 26-week limit would be a step toward the guarantee of useful, living-wage work for all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“Biden Focusing Economic Policy on Job Growth<\/a><\/strong>,” \u00a0NY Times, January 19, 2021 . p1.<\/p>\n Trudy Goldberg, Chair, NJFAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cheers for President Biden\u2019s focus on Job Growth! Getting jobless people back to work certainly beats extended unemployment benefits, though these should be available as long as joblessness remains high.\u00a0 However, the general fiscal stimulus that seems to be the President\u2019s strategy for job growth is not the most efficient or effective way to create… Read More Job Growth, Yes! But How?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}