Friday, October 21, 2011

Job Growth Through Pollution

The latest GOP plan for increasing jobs relies on an energy industry study which claims that limiting industry regulation will enable the industry to employ more people. Moreover, the study claims that every job created in the energy industry will have a multiplied effect on jobs created elsewhere. The GOP had denied the multiplier effect when it was argued that keeping teachers from being fired would have a multiplier effect. The other problem with the GOP plan is that the growth in jobs takes place several years from now. They refused to support the administration plan that would increase jobs next year.

There is a link in this article to a Yale-Middlebury study which measured the costs of pollution associated with a variety of industries. It argues for increased regulation to lower the cost of pollution.

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