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Blog post by Madeline Janis, Co-founder and National Policy Director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Nov. 2, 2012

It seems like a hopeless conundrum. We need our government - federal state and local - to stimulate the economy and help create jobs. But our government has no money. Or at least less money. So does that mean that it's foolish - or unfair - to insist that our local, state and governments do "something" to create more and better jobs for people who desperately need them?

Well, no. In fact, there is a lot that our government can do to double or triple the number of jobs that are being created in the US with the same or similar amounts of money. We just have to do things in a smarter and more strategic way to get much better results.