A more effective stimulus: job creation

Courtesy Marketplace  Fri, 06/06/2008 - 16:46

History tells us employment tends to lag in the economic cycle. Jobs return once demand for products and services goes up.

But commentator and economist Mark Thoma says factors like technology are throwing a wrench into the jobs equation.


 

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