United States of America

[ThomasWach]

Hier ein Artikel, der sich positiv für das Stimulus package ausspricht, sowohl aus wirtschaftlicher, als auch aus sozialpolitischer Hinsicht.
Und am Rande, das schreibt kein linkes Blatt, sondern ein renomierter amerikanischer Think Tank (auch wenn er nicht gerade der konservativste ist...)

Poverty and Economic Stimulus

Rebecca M. Blank, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Mark H. Greenberg, Director, Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy

The bad news on the economy continued last week, when we learned that the unemployment rate has now reached 7.6 percent, with more than 11 million unemployed people. It's worth focusing on the people behind these statistics. The pain of unemployment is not spread equally among the population. When unemployment rises, less skilled workers are laid off at a much higher rate than more skilled workers. In the most recent unemployment statistics, almost 11 percent of high school dropouts are unemployed, while the unemployment rate is less than 4 percent among college graduates.
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Unemployment means steep reductions in family income. It isn't surprising that rapid increases in unemployment lead to substantial increases in poverty. A rough rule of thumb is that for every percentage point increase in unemployment, the poverty rate increases by almost half a percentage point. If unemployment reaches 10 percent, as some analysts now project, the nation's poverty rate could grow from 12.5 percent in 2007 to 14.8 percent _ meaning that more than one out of every seven Americans will be living in poverty.

Such a large increase in poverty and economic need is not inevitable, however. Government policy in the coming months matters a great deal. If the recovery package generates millions of jobs, we may avoid 10 percent unemployment.
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Quelle:
http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0...blank.aspx