Government
Aug. 24, 2011
Lost in the debt ceiling debate: The legal duty to create jobs
The government's failure to take affirmative steps to create jobs is not only illegal - it is also economically unwise. By Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn
The debate about the debt ceiling should have been a conversation about how to create jobs. It is time for progressives to remind the government that it has a legal duty to create jobs, and must act immediately - if not through Congress, then through the Federal Reserve.
With official unemployment reaching over 9 percent, the unofficial rate in double digits, and the unemployment rate for people of color more than doubl...
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