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Politico | Democrats eye new jobs agenda
Senate Democrats are beginning to fear that the country's increasingly dim economic outlook will cost them their seates in 2012 and are trying to craft a new agenda aimed at spurring job creation.
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Washington Post | The great jobs mismatch
You might think (I did) that with almost 14 million Americans unemployed — and nearly half those for more than six months — that companies could fill almost any opening quickly. Not so. Somehow, there’s a mismatch between idle workers and open jobs. Economists call this “structural unemployment.”
News week | It’s Still the Economy, Stupid
Fourteen million Americans remain out of work, a waste of our greatest resource. The 42nd president has more than a dozen ideas on how to attack the jobs crisis.
