Wading Into the Welfare Dust-Up
Aug 10, 2012 at 9:50 am
Over at MSNBC:
What we should be talking about are…jobs. What we are talking about is…jeez…beats me…
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Jared Bernstein’s areas of expertise include federal and state economic and fiscal policies, income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, international comparisons, and the analysis of financial and housing markets.
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It’s particularly strange that people are blathering on about “welfare-to-work” when there aren’t nearly enough jobs for the people who don’t have them. Where, exactly, are all those supposed lazy freeloaders supposed to work?