Ira Stoll on Subsidizing the Jobless To Relocate

The latest Washington policy solution to
the problem of the long-term jobless is to pay them to move
somewhere else where there are more jobs. Ira Stoll says that if
federal moving vouchers are to catch on anywhere, America may be
the place for it. So many of our forefathers moved here from
foreign lands in part for economic opportunity, and after arriving,
they or their descendants often moved again.

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