Strategic and Political Challenges to Large-Scale Federal Job Creation

This article identifies and explores means of meeting political and strategic challenges to the enactment of a federal job creation program sufficiently large and well-targeted to cope with mass unemployment. The challenges include: anti-government ideology; perceived failure of the Obama stimulus;...

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Published in:The Review of Black political economy 2012-03, Vol.39 (1), p.43-62
Main Author: Goldberg, Gertrude Schaffner
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Employment
Employment creation
Full employment
Ideologies
Job creation
Legislation
New Deal
Political protest
Political Science
Politics
Poverty
Public finance
Social movements
Sociology
Sponsorship
Stimuli
Studies
U.S.A
Unemployment
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Summary:This article identifies and explores means of meeting political and strategic challenges to the enactment of a federal job creation program sufficiently large and well-targeted to cope with mass unemployment. The challenges include: anti-government ideology; perceived failure of the Obama stimulus; exaggerated concern over federal deficits; shortcomings of the New Deal model for job creation; limited scope and/or sponsorship of legislative initiatives; and organizing a movement on behalf of the unemployed and large-scale job creation.
ISSN:0034-6446
1936-4814
DOI:10.1007/s12114-011-9110-6