Against a guaranteed jobs program
During the Great Depression, the government created thousands of jobs for the unemployed. That would never work today.
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James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.
