The Odds of Landing a Job in This Economy

may be about as good as getting into Harvard, but the way things are going, you may have a better chance of winning the Powerball jackpot than getting a decent job.

The 3.5 million jobs the stimulus package aims to provide are insufficient. To get the job growth the country needs, the White House should push for sustained infrastructure investment, cutting corporate taxes, and increasing access to credit for small businesses. We still have thirty million workers in the United States who are unemployed, underemployed or discouraged and they face the same odds of finding a job as a high school senior applying to the world's most elite university.