{"id":478,"date":"2010-07-27T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2010-07-27T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:19:06","slug":"why-creating-social-sector-jobs-is-a-great-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/why-creating-social-sector-jobs-is-a-great-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why creating social-sector jobs is a great idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/26\/improving-home-care-services-creating-jobs\/\">New York Times Economix blog<\/a>, Nancy Folbre of the University of Massachusetts cites the work of Levy Institute economists in suggesting that Uncle Sam fund more home-care jobs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Four economists at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.levyinstitute.org\/\">Levy Economics Institute of Bard College<\/a> \u2013 Rania Antonopoulos, Kijong Kim, Thomas Masterson and Ajit Zacharias \u2013 have published a policy brief, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.levyinstitute.org\/publications\/?docid=1227\">Why President Obama Should Care About \u2018Care\u2019: An Effective and Equitable Investment Strategy for Job Creation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are many reasons this is a great way to battle unemployment. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levyinstitute.org\/publications\/?docid=1227\">the policy brief<\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for the New York Times Economix blog, Nancy Folbre of the University of Massachusetts cites the work of Levy Institute economists in suggesting that Uncle Sam fund more home-care jobs: Four economists at the\u00a0Levy Economics Institute of Bard College \u2013 Rania Antonopoulos, Kijong Kim, Thomas Masterson and Ajit Zacharias \u2013 have published a policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,25],"tags":[1131,68,11],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-policy","category-employment","category-levy-institute","tag-fiscal-policy","tag-health","tag-unemployment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}