Recommended: Jobs Program? Here Are 3 Essential Ingredients

Jonathan Cohn in The New Republic has a piece Jobs Program? Here Are 3 Essential Ingredients that is worth reading. His three points -- make it big enough, do it soon enough, and be smart about how we do it -- make sense to me. Whether our polarized, ideology-driven (both Republican and Democrat) political machine in Washington can manage to do any of those three things is a real question, though.