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Why President Obama should care about care: An effective and equitable investment strategy for job creation

In his State of the Union address President Obama acknowledged that our most urgent task is job creation - that a move toward full employment will lay the foundation for long-term economic growth and ensure that the federal government creates the necessary conditions for businesses to expand and hire more workers. According to a new study by Levy scholars Rania Antonopoulos, Kijong Kim, Thomas Masterson, and Ajit Zacharias, the government needs to identify and invest in projects that have the potential for massive, and immediate, public job creation. They conclude that social sector investment, such as early childhood education and home-based care, would generate twice as many jobs as infrastructure spending and nearly 1.5 times the number created by investment in green energy, while catering to the most vulnerable segments of the workforce.

ISBN
978-1-936192-04-5
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Public Policy Brief ; No. 108

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Beschäftigungspolitik
Arbeitsbeschaffung
Sozialer Dienst
USA

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Antonopoulos, Rania
Kim, Kijong
Masterson, Thomas
Zacharias, Ajit
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
(where)
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
(when)
2010

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Object type

  • Bericht

Associated

  • Antonopoulos, Rania
  • Kim, Kijong
  • Masterson, Thomas
  • Zacharias, Ajit
  • Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

Time of origin

  • 2010

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