W-T-W.org Women and Finance recommens a twenty-year Infrastructure program to give people jobs while we figure out how to fit properly trained people to available jobs.

Megan McArdle writes about the recent election and notes that Republicans won even though the economy appears to be improving and new jobs are up.

She observes that the kind of jobs that satisfy people are often not available.  People can’t find jobs where they have a future.  Business startups and small businesses that employ so many people are on a decline.

It may be that a party that disapproves raising the minimum wage is perceived as being more sympathetic to the real jobs issue.