The trouble with full employment; expand the social programs.

From: The Nation | Date: May 17, 1986| Author: | Copyright information

The Trouble With Full Employment

The left and the right seem finally to have converged on a common economic goal--full employment. Much of the left clings to this durable liberal objective, highlighted in The Nation recently by Michael Harrington [see "Progressive Economics for 1988,' May 3]. Meanwhile, in a surprising shift, the right has appropriated the language of growth and full employment that had been the property of liberals for half a century. On the eve of his fifth State of the Union Message, Ronald Reagan, eerily echoing Hubert Humphrey, called for "full ...

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