Ahead of President Obama's highly anticipated policy speech on jobs, the Brookings Institution held a roundtable conversation on possible policy measures the Obama administration might make in order to improve the bleak economic picture. Michael Mussa, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, made the case for infrastructure spending. Mussa argued that passing the highway bill is among the most expedient, and least controversial paths to increasing public hiring:
You can watch other excerpts from the discussion here, and read a full transcript here.
Posted
09-05-2011 9:13 AM
by
Graham Griffith