For too many years, the nation’s most urgent needs have been neglected. From education to innovation, from infrastructure to health care, the United States has not provided adequate public investments to meet growing national challenges. Significant investment is needed not only to reverse the decades of neglect, but also to modernize our economy to meet the needs of the 21st century.
Public investment can create good jobs now, while laying the foundation for future economic growth.
The Stimulus: Two years later
In testimony before Congress in early 2011, Economist Josh Bivens outlined the job-creating benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Recent Work on Public Investment
News from EPI: EPI outlines 11 effective job creation proposals
America, you are being told to tough it out
News from EPI: A plan to put hundreds of thousands of people back to work now: “FAST!”
FAST!: An infrastructure program to repair public schools
News from EPI: Statement of EPI President Mishel on Rep. Schakowsky’s proposed jobs legislation
Two-and-a-half years of a job-seeker’s ratio above 4-to-1
The facts support raising revenues from the highest-income households
Job growth still sputtering in lowest gear
What’s missing from the debt ceiling debate? Jobs
It’s still the economy, Congress, not the concocted debt ceiling crisis
Public investments near 60-year low
