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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Rise Again August 10-12, 2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)21. Full Employment is Possible: Robert Pollin
http://www.nationofchange.org/full-employment-possible-robert-pollin-1344176040
Prominent economists have been expounding for months on the dire consequences of this country’s unemployment crisis. As recently as this May, Dean Baker and Ken Hassett exhorted us to pay vigilant attention. In an op-ed headlined “The Human Disaster,” they described unemployment as “nothing short of a national emergency.”
Still, the election discussion plods on with barely a nod to the criminal unemployment disaster.
For bracing relief, check out the latest from economist Robert Pollin, professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Pollin’s latest book, Back To Full Employment, lays out a roadmap to recovery that wouldn’t take a miracle. It wouldn’t even require a Democratic sweep this November; merely action by the Fed and a progressive movement worth its salt...
VIDEO INTERVIEW AT LINK
Prominent economists have been expounding for months on the dire consequences of this country’s unemployment crisis. As recently as this May, Dean Baker and Ken Hassett exhorted us to pay vigilant attention. In an op-ed headlined “The Human Disaster,” they described unemployment as “nothing short of a national emergency.”
Still, the election discussion plods on with barely a nod to the criminal unemployment disaster.
For bracing relief, check out the latest from economist Robert Pollin, professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Pollin’s latest book, Back To Full Employment, lays out a roadmap to recovery that wouldn’t take a miracle. It wouldn’t even require a Democratic sweep this November; merely action by the Fed and a progressive movement worth its salt...
VIDEO INTERVIEW AT LINK
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