Gary Burtless

Brookings Institution

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Senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, and co-author of Growth with Equity: Economic Policymaking for the Next Century and Can America Afford to Grow Old?

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US unemployment is back up to 9.1 percent and 45 percent of the jobless have been out of work for more than six months, 30 percent for more than a year.

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During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt put four million people to work in four months.

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During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt put four million people to work in four months.

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