Via Truthout:: Dean Baker and Sarita Gupta | Tax Breaks Are Not Sufficient to Restore Employment

Dean Baker and Sarita Gupta, Truthout: "There is a depressing complicity among much of the political leadership about the recession. Many politicians seem prepared to accept that we will have sky-high rates of unemployment for the indefinite future. Projections from the Congressional Budget Office and other authoritative forecasts show the situation improving little over the next few years. At the moment, this means 15 million people unemployed, nine million underemployed and millions of other workers who don't even get counted because they have given up hope of finding a job and stopped looking. It is outrageous that we have this situation today. Allowing high unemployment to continue for years into the future is unacceptable."

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