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Europe Beats U.S. In Jobs Creation While Maintaining Stronger Worker Protections

By Doug Cunningham

In a new Center for Economic and Policy Research report, economist John Schmitt takes a look at whatever happened to the American jobs machine. Europe has been outperforming the U.S. in jobs creation and they’re doing it while keeping national health insurance, a stronger social safety net than the U.S. and a more powerful labor movement with more worker protections and benefits than the U.S. Schmitt argues that Europe may be creating more jobs than the U.S. because of its better labor protections and social safety net.

: "They have a lot of economic success and they have a lot of benefits for workers. Certainly for me the idea of having stronger unions, having a higher minimum wage, having guaranteed health insurance for everybody, having mandated legal requirements for paid vacation and for sick leave and similar sorts of worker protections I think are very important. And we're much richer than Europe. We oughta be able to figure out how we do that and have that here as well."

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