In response to growing anger over unemployment, the government has rushed forward a package of job-creation measures for the young and the long-term unemployed.
Treasury sources said the theme of the budget would be the need for fiscal rectitude to underpin recovery, but there are also likely to be job creation measures, help for small businesses and money for pensioners.
We continued to shine a spotlight on the need for job creation measures that include subsidized employment.
Republicans said they wanted to include "job creation" measures, including one blocking environmental regulations for commercial boilers and another forcing the construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, which the Obama administration has blocked.
Yet, instead of championing job creation measures supported by more reasonable conservatives - for example, a payroll tax cut - Davis has chosen to exploit the stagnant economy to deconstruct the policy latticework that has helped build the middle class.
In other words, we may be more likely to succeed in enacting job creation measures this year if we highlight and propose additional deficit reduction measures for the medium term".
Hinton, however, criticizes President Johnson for not spending more money on job creation measures and revamping public schools in poor, urban areas.
It comes as Mr. Obama and Democrats, like many economists, are calling for a mix of larger long-term deficit reduction measures with immediate additional job creation measures.
Because immediate severe austerity would be terrible for the economy and for unemployment, the president needs to gain support for including job-creation measures in an overall fiscal reform package.
On Sunday, the job of making the argument for job-creation measures now and budget austerity later fell to Jacob J. Lew, Mr. Obama's chief of staff and until recently his budget director, who made the rounds of five television talk shows.
WASHINGTON — In proposing a 5 percent surtax on incomes of more than $1 million a year to pay for job-creation measures sought by President Obama, Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday escalated efforts to strike a more populist tone and to draw Republicans into a confrontation over how much affluent Americans should pay to help others cope with a struggling economy.
