the white house floating this week like an infrastructure bank to fund major construction projects, doing more repairs and upgrades to u.s. schools, fast tracking trade agreements, the building of new highways and repair of existing ones. all ideas of hiring workers and putting money back into the economy in the short-term to get things moving. also extending unemployment benefits for people who can t find new jobs, given the news the average job search is getting longer, now over 40 weeks. even if we can t get a political consensus for say building schools or roads, surely in the short-term we can agree to extend unemployment benefits. workers paid into the unemployment system for themselves when they were working, now they need those benefits. every dollar we spend on unemployment insurance is worth $1.61 to the rest of the economy. surely we re not going to undo this one thing that everyone
economy in the short-term to get things moving. also extending unemployment benefits for people who can t find new jobs, given the news the average job search is getting longer, now over 40 weeks. even if we can t get a political consensus for say building schools or roads, surely in the short-term we can agree to extend unemployment benefits. workers paid into the unemployment system for themselves when they were working, now they need those benefits. every dollar we spend on unemployment insurance is worth $1.61 to the rest of the economy. surely we re not going to undo this one thing that everyone agrees works by cutting off unemployment benefits in a few months. actually, we are going to shoot