{"id":55133,"date":"2009-11-30T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/its-time-for-an-emergency-jobs-program-2009-11"},"modified":"2009-11-30T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T11:20:00","slug":"its-time-for-an-emergency-jobs-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/55133","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time For An Emergency Jobs Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=417a6c79054ac9496aab5400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"paulkrugman explaining tbi\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You might think, then, that doing something about the employment situation would be a top policy priority. But now that total financial collapse has been averted, all the urgency seems to have vanished from policy discussion, replaced by a strange passivity. There&rsquo;s a pervasive sense in Washington that nothing more can or should be done, that we should just wait for the economic recovery to trickle down to workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/30\/opinion\/30krugman.html?_r=1\">Keep reading at the NYT &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/its-time-for-an-emergency-jobs-program-2009-11#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-david-rosenberg-okay-fine-the-jobs-numbers-are-getting-better-2009-11\">David Rosenberg: Okay, Fine, The Jobs Numbers Are Getting Better<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-watch-the-country-get-fired-unemployment-by-county-2007-2009-2009-11\">Watch The Country Get Fired: Unemployment By County 2007-2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mishs-unemployment-projections-through-2020-it-looks-grim-2009-11\">10%+ Unemployment Through 2015, Says Mish<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/gQtEv9QAGxA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible&#8230; You might think, then, that doing something about the employment situation would be a top policy priority. But now that total financial collapse has been averted, all the urgency seems to have vanished from policy discussion, replaced by a strange passivity. There&rsquo;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}