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NY Times: Somehow, the Unemployed Became Invisible
Somehow, the Unemployed Became Invisible
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
Published: July 9, 2011
GRIM number of the week: 14,087,000.
Fourteen million, in round numbers ? that is how many Americans are now officially out of work. . . . .
No wonder policy makers don?t fear unemployed Americans. The jobless are, politically speaking, more or less invisible. . . .
To the extent that frustrations are being channeled at all, they are being channeled largely through the Tea Party. But the Tea Party is mostly against devoting government resources to helping the unemployed.
Tea Party activists, for example, are more likely to believe that providing benefits to poor people encourages them to stay poor, and to believe that economic stimulus has made the economy worse.
Why populist anger over the poor economy is leaning right, rather than left, this time around is a bit of a mystery. . . .
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
Published: July 9, 2011
GRIM number of the week: 14,087,000.
Fourteen million, in round numbers ? that is how many Americans are now officially out of work. . . . .
No wonder policy makers don?t fear unemployed Americans. The jobless are, politically speaking, more or less invisible. . . .
To the extent that frustrations are being channeled at all, they are being channeled largely through the Tea Party. But the Tea Party is mostly against devoting government resources to helping the unemployed.
Tea Party activists, for example, are more likely to believe that providing benefits to poor people encourages them to stay poor, and to believe that economic stimulus has made the economy worse.
Why populist anger over the poor economy is leaning right, rather than left, this time around is a bit of a mystery. . . .
