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October 20, 2009

What to do About the Jobs Crisis

Michael Lind, Salon

The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. Here's what the federal government can do about the jobs crisis

By Michael Lind

Read more: Democratic Party, Congress, Labor, Jobs, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Taxes, Opinion, Michael Lind

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Unemployed people plea for aid in Seattle, circa the 1930s.

Oct. 19, 2009 | According to official statistics, the unemployment rate in the United States is now 9.8 percent. But those statistics understate the severity of the jobs crisis. The official statistics do not include the 875,000 Americans who have given up looking for work, even though they want jobs. When these "marginally...

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