claim: the bush-era tax cuts failed to increase employment and "work-force participation fell in 2001 and has never returned to the record level set in 2000."
author: jim moran
evidence_1: jim moran · the bush-era tax cuts failed to increase employment and "work-force  participation fell in 2001 and has never returned to the record level set in 2000.
evidence_2: unemployment in the united states discusses the causes and measures of u.s.  unemployment and strategies for reducing it. job creation and unemployment are  affected by factors such as economic ..... the labor force participation rate (lfpr)  is defined as the number of persons in the labor force (i.e., employed and ...
evidence_3: nov 17, 2003 ... nafta is a free trade and investment agreement that provided ... between 1994 ( when nafta was implemented) and 2000, total employment rose rapidly in the  united states, causing overall unemployment to fall to record low levels. ....  degree, who made up 72.1% of the workforce in 2001 (mishel et al.
evidence_4: the economic policy of the george w. bush administration was characterized by  significant ... the employment recoveries from both the 2001 and 2007-2009  recessions ... bush argued that such a tax cut would stimulate the economy and  create ... however, income tax revenues in dollar terms did not regain their fy  2000 ...
evidence_5: feb 14, 2013 ... it also analyzes why the u.s. economy has failed to fully recover and .... from  2001 to 2007 was the weakest on record for job growth and was the first ... lower  than in 2000—and had fallen below inflation-adjusted 1994 levels. .... that forced  spending cuts and tax increases as the recession eroded tax ...