The US economy is booming, yet jobs are the scarcest they’ve been in many years. But what starts as a simple question – where did the jobs go? – leads to some big and surprising discoveries about the bizarre and upside-down nature of today’s economy.


Best we can do is small-scale, means-tested public works programs outsourced to private firms that are run by Pell Grant recipients who have operated a small business in an economically underprivileged area while maintaining net positive year-over-year profits for at least five years