Unemployment: What's to Blame?

Publication Date: October 1982

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Peter G. Germanis

Research Area: Labor

Keywords: Labor

Type: Report

Abstract:

If the federal government genuinely wants to reduce unemployment, it should go to the root of the problem: government itself. The evidence clearly shows that much of today's unemployment is a product of government programs, restrictions, and other barriers that inhibit job creation. It would be far better to terminate these than to suffer through even heavier doses of ineffective government intervention.