Duncan Smith claims he is trying to help the unemployed.
Instead, they will favour activist policies designed to help the unemployed through labour-market intervention.
Yet any action to help the unemployed is vetoed by the fear-mongers.
Governments can also help the unemployed find jobs, notably by strengthening public employment services and training.
So, at this point, leading Republicans are basically against anything that might help the unemployed.
On the economy, the priority should be to reduce unemployment and help the unemployed.
But they called for a more aggressive effort to help the unemployed than Mr. Bush proposed.
It has none of the Democratic spending proposals to help the unemployed or create jobs.
They help the unemployed, working poor – and, increasingly, the middle classes.
Democrats said Mr. Bush's proposals to help the unemployed were a good first step.
America is better at creative destruction, but it invests too little in ways to help the unemployed back to work.
