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Tue, 11/03/2009 - 11:04 | EconomyPoliticsIn an article on Salon.com, former labor secretary Robert Reich addresses the issue of unemployment, in the wake of signs that the economy is recovering:
The economy may be in a technical recovery, but this is not a real recovery, and the "green shoots" or "positive signs" that Wall Street cheerleaders love to shout about are phantoms of their ever-optimistic imaginations. The stimulus is working but it is far from adequate. Before the stimulus, we were losing more than 500,000 jobs a month. Now that 40 percent of the stimulus has been spent, we are losing more than 250,000 jobs a month.
He goes on to make some recommendations.
What do you think should be done about unemployment?


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