Economic Stimulus and Economically Distressed Workers
Publication Type:
ReportSource:
Center for Study of Working Class Life (2009)URL:
http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/resources/distress_full.pdfKeywords:
employment; stimulusAbstract:
Almost 21 percent of households in the U.S. are economically distressed, almost twice the official poverty rate. To reach full employment we need a stimulus package with sustained increases in government spending of $220 billion to generate a $330 billion increase in GDP required to create the new jobs. Economically distressed families also need structural economic reforms as well as the immediate benefits of the stimulus package.
