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...most direct ways of improving employment, or improving unemployment, depending on how quickly people are being put out of work, is to give businesses direct financial incentives to hire...
...cuts and rebates are not incentives, at least in an economy that is sinking this fast. The money takes too long to get from the government to the business operator. The system needs something more direct...
...single most direct option is for the government to pay a portion of the salary of each net new employee a company hires. For the recently unemployed, this could be a boon for earlier reemployment. If a company could use new people for expansion but cannot afford them, having 50% of their first year's salary paid by the federal government gives it the opportunity to grow.. This proposal would allow firms which have let people go to save money, even at the peril of the viability of their businesses, the chance to bring them back...
...alternative to giving U.S. businesses a direct incentive to start hiring people tomorrow is waiting to see if the stimulus package will work on a grander scale. That would be simpler. Four or five large business sectors would get capital to offer hundreds of thousands of jobs each to create the equivalent of a new economy...
...direct ties to Hillary Clinton, having helped raise money for Clinton's 2000 Senate bid and later earning Clinton's endorsement when Gillibrand ran for office in 2006. New York's other Senator, Charles Schumer, reportedly was a staunch advocate for Gillibrand to succeed Clinton in the U.S. Senate...