How to turn Frank Underwood's America Works program into a killer real-world policy

Two words: money printing

There’s every reason to think this made up strategy could work in the real world.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.