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Strategic and Political Challenges to Large-Scale Federal Job Creation

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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

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  • Gertrude Goldberg, 2012. "Strategic and Political Challenges to Large-Scale Federal Job Creation," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 39(1), pages 43-62, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:blkpoe:v:39:y:2012:i:1:p:43-62
    DOI: 10.1007/s12114-011-9110-6
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