The latter option...well, I fear it's not as unappealing to a lot of people as I wish it were, but I'm going to ignore it and focus on the former option.Ignoring the option of just letting people go hungry, we have a landscape where we can choose between handing unemployed people government benefits with no strings attached, or having the government find jobs for them, as Mr Myerson suggests.
This has created a dual labour market for older workers, of cosseted insiders on the one hand and unemployed or retired outsiders on the other.But this model cannot last.
On the other hand, keeping unemployed individuals attached to the benefit system has also costs for the government and for society as a whole.
On the one hand, countless unemployed or underemployed workers with perfectly good skills, education, and experience are struggling through a severe job drought, many sending out hundreds of applications and resumes to no avail.
"If you don't do your footwork, your hands are unemployed," said Satch, who now coaches five players with Division I offers at Northland High School.
There the conclusion is clear: You get much more bang for the buck putting money in the hands of unemployed people because they will promptly spend it.
In response, the Senate Democratic proposal would try to revive the economy mainly by putting more money in the hands of unemployed and low-income people and granting businesses tax breaks for investing in equipment.
"I want to extend my hand to the unemployed, the peasants, the workers, the young students, the farmers, the incapacitated, the miners.
Brendan Duke, a spokesman for the Service Employees International Union, an organization of 2.1 million members, told The Huffington Post that there were 600 protesters on hand, including 300 unemployed workers from the D.C. area.
More than 65,000 buildings — stone monuments in the South, green towns in the Midwest, white clapboard meeting houses in New England — rose from the hands of previously unemployed Americans.
