The White House Works It

Dean Baker, Director for the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and contributor to Mandate for Change, discusses Obama’s recent job summit at the White House with The Wall Street Journal.

Despite this interest, small businesses may chafe at the plan. Micro-businesses (firms with fewer than 20 employees) would likely be left out, says Dean Baker, a co-director at the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. “Presumably, you would want to aid firms other than ones that employ close friends and family members,” he says. “Having a certain size minimum makes it more difficult to come up with some scam.”

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