Posted on Friday, 8th January 2010 by admin
The announcement that the U.S. economy unexpectedly lost 85,000 jobs in December was another, difficult dose of information for Americans looking for work, for business executives and policy makers, alike.
Job lay-offs are subsiding, but the goal of large, sustained, monthly increases in jobs — the kind that’s need to maintain the U.S. economic expansion and restore national well-being — remains on the horizon.
In this environment, the bright spots are way too few, and policy makers must do much more — either via tax credits or stimulus spending (or both) to jump-start hiring.
In the meantime, even modest job opportunities must be considered. One modest job opportunity: the U.S. Census, which will hire about 1.1 million people across the U.S. as part of the decennial census in 2010. To learn more about how to apply for U.S. Census jobs in your region, click here.
Granted, many of these positions are modest-paying and temporary, but under these economic conditions, all legitimate opportunities must be considered.
To be sure, the U.S. government retains the means to implement much larger jobs and public works programs, as it did in the 1930s, but as of now there’s little support on Capitol Hill to implement them: the Democrats are divided on the issue, and Republicans are dead-set against it.
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Financial Editor Joseph Lazzaro is writing a book on the U.S. presidency and the U.S. economy.
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