We Pay People to Be Unemployed— Maybe We Could Pay Them to Learn

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In The Atlantic, Derek Thompson discusses a new Hamilton Project proposal by Louis S. Jacobson, Daniel G. Sullivan, and Robert J. LaLonde to create a Displaced Worker Training (DWT) program to train workers who lost high-tenured jobs. Read the article here and the full proposal here.

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