Saturday, September 10, 2011

Jeffrey Sachs: A Real Jobs Program


Jeffrey Sachs is director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and a prominent expert on the economics of development. - GWc
Jeffrey Sachs: A Real Jobs Program:
"Obama is right that the Republican vision of relentless tax cuts, deregulation, and shrinking government is the road to ruin. Yet Obama's alternative of short-term and shortsighted stimulus is only marginally better. Neither approach is getting America back on track.

America requires at least a decade of well-designed and well-executed national investments in people, infrastructure, and innovative technologies, in order to boost competitiveness and renovate the economy. Yet such an effort requires serious plans, careful deliberation, and higher taxation on deadbeat corporations and the super-rich"

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