Strategic and Political Challenges to Large-Scale Federal Job Creation

Gertrude Goldberg ()

The Review of Black Political Economy, 2012, vol. 39, issue 1, 43-62

Abstract: 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. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2012

Keywords: Jobs; Job creation; Full employment; Stimulus; New Deal; Mass protest; Conyers bill (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s12114-011-9110-6

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