[HN Gopher] American hard hat jobs have the highest level of ope...
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       American hard hat jobs have the highest level of open positions
       ever recorded
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-07-30 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | CharlieDigital wrote:
       | Recent Freakonomics episode might have some insights:
       | https://freakonomics.com/podcast/will-the-democrats-make-ame...
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       | Namely many of the major spending bills passed by the Biden admin
       | focuses on actually building things in the US.
        
         | vGPU wrote:
         | It turns out going to war against china isn't the best idea
         | when all of your manufacturing is in china.
        
           | cyanydeez wrote:
           | Also, china managed the 2008 recession by make work projects
           | and had those projects really had a use case, it's been
           | successful.
           | 
           | Biden clearly understands the real economic value of keeping
           | an economy functional.
        
             | pram wrote:
             | I seem to recall "shovel ready jobs" as a talking point
             | around that time.
        
             | solardev wrote:
             | Didn't we also do that with the New Deal?
        
               | vGPU wrote:
               | >After scrutinizing Roosevelt's record for four years,
               | Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study
               | that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago
               | thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.
               | 
               | Doesn't seem to have been a great move.
        
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