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Unemployment: Issues in the 112th Congress

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Gravelle, Jane G.; Hungerford, Thomas L.; Levine, Linda
Abstract
[Excerpt] This report considers three policy issues: whether to take additional measures to increase jobs, what measures might be most effective, and how job creation proposals should be financed. Most proposals discussed as part of a potential additional macroeconomic jobs bill are traditional fiscal stimulus policies. Their objective is to increase total spending in the economy (aggregate demand) either through direct government spending on programs or by providing funds to others that they will spend (through tax cuts, transfer payments, and aid to state and local governments). Proposals for employment tax credits are different from traditional fiscal policies in that their objective is to directly increase employment through a subsidy to labor costs.
Date Issued
2012-10-05Subject
unemployment; Congress; job creation; stimulus; government spending
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unassigned