Government Employment Sag Laying Waste To Recovery

Huffington Post by Bonnie Kavoussi | Aug. 3, 2012 (News Report)
Economists interviewed by The Huffington Post blamed the problem on the paralysis in Washington.

The government probably could get us out of this mess. One striking piece of data in the jobs numbers out Friday was just how much of a drag the public sector is on the lame economic recovery. While the private sector added 172,000 jobs in July; federal, Full Story »

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 by Randy Morrow - Aug. 5, 2012

The government could have cut the unemployment rate to as low as 5 percent by now “if we had spent enough to do it,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research. A government stimulus focused on hiring workers to repair infrastructure would be “the quickest way” to ease the jobs crisis, he said. —— By blocking Obama’s jobs proposals, congressional Republicans are sabotaging the economy to win the 2012 election,

The article echoes Paul Krugman’s call more more gov. stimulus. Republicorps blocking actions fit their agenda perfectly—if they block gov. from working they can and will claim that gov. does not work and that they should be elected to fix the gov. problem.

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