Jeff Smith in Politico’s “The Arena”

We are proud to announce that our own contributing RP, Jeff Smith, has been asked to join “The Arena,” Politico’s daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers.

Jeff’s first piece was in response to the group’s discussion of the state of the economy:

Using the absolute number of jobs created as a gauge of employment trends can be deceiving for a couple simple reasons.

1) The economy needs to add somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000 jobs per month just to keep up with population growth. So the first couple hundred thousand jobs added generally won’t reduce unemployment because of a growing denominator…

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