The Jobs Crisis
Obama, Romney and the Low-Wage Future of America
August 27, 2012
To the extent that there has been any attention paid to public policy
issues amid all the mud-slinging in the 2012 presidential campaign, the
most frequent subject has been jobs—and which candidate can create more
of them over the next four years.
So far, that debate mostly
involves attacking the other guy, rather than advancing any real
solution. The Obama campaign has been trying to define Mitt Romney as an
effete champion of outsourcing (with some justification) while the
Romney camp has dwelled on Barack Obama’s failure to reignite the job
market (also with some justification, though in some significant part
the failure is because of GOP obstruction).
Their descriptions
of their own plans are no more edifying. As the incumbent, Obama has to
run on his record—and despite his talk of bold solutions, that means
either exaggerating his successes or making a lot of excuses.
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