
The 16 Best Ideas to Supercharge Job Creation in One Venn Diagram
The most interesting and substantive ideas from the Atlantic/McKinsey Great Jobs Debate
The economy has been growing for nearly two years since the Great Recession— but someone forgot to tell the American worker. Twenty five million Americans are still underemployed, out of work, working part time, or out of the workforce altogether. For perspective, that number is the same as the population of Texas. Something is broken. Has Washington given up on the unemployed? Or has the economy been fundamentally transformed under the pressures of globalization, technology, and a housing bust?
The Atlantic and McKinsey & Company brought together some of the top minds in business, government, and the world of ideas, each to answer the same question: What is the single best thing Washington can do to jumpstart job creation? Check back here each day through July 22 for more entries.
What is the single most important step the government should take to create more jobs? Easy--it should stop trying. Just stop trying.
The most interesting and substantive ideas from the Atlantic/McKinsey Great Jobs Debate
Call it a "try before you buy" model, or a risk-free hiring process
Suggestions to create jobs won't actually help America's unemployed any time soon
What if creating jobs -- for ourselves and for others -- became the mantra of our MBA, engineering, science and graduate programs?
We need to apply an "Einstein Principle" in our approach to immigration and technology innovation
Students are less likely to drop-out and more likely to enjoy school when they see their classes as relevant to their future.
We are, as a culture, deeply invested in not identifying with people who cannot find a job.
The most important thing the United States can do to create jobs is strip away outdated policies that no longer support companies or the people who work in them.
We should reduce the corporate tax rate to 23 percent, a 12-percentage-point reduction from the current 35 percent rate.
Health care reform, financial reform, and the Consumer Protection Act have made it difficult for businesses to anticipate their future costs.
By far the most important thing the federal government can do to build confidence is to agree on a ten-year plan to deal with the budget deficit.
The job creation engine of small business is out of gas. Let's try microlending to get small firms money to hire and expand.
Surely we can muster the political courage to tell millionaires they can keep their yachts, but it's time to put American back to work
Tar roofs cover millions of American buildings, absorbing huge amounts of heat and requiring more air conditioning to cool the rooms
Too many high-tech companies rely on talented immigrants to fill jobs in the digital economy. Immigration is important, but we also need homegrown talent.
The only government solution to long-term unemployment we've ever found was to have World War II. We don't want to do that again. But here's an idea.
First, we need to put in place fair and rigorous teacher evaluation systems
First, give every foreign graduate student in a U.S. science, technology, engineering, or mathematics program a work visa
The Fed needs to buy more Treasury bonds and securities. As money in circulation rises, so too will the value of spending.
The government should set a strong national platform for exports, starting with the ratification of free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia.