§3112 Countercyclical employment policies

Summary

To meet the goals in section 3111, the President must consider nine kinds of programs when planning countercyclical actions: accelerated public works (including ready-to-start projects), public service jobs, State and local grant programs, the levels and length of unemployment insurance, skill training in both private and public sectors (as a general fix and to supplement unemployment insurance), youth employment programs (see section 3115), community development jobs that help States and local areas, Federal procurement that targets labor-surplus areas, and strengthening other employment and training programs to reduce cyclical unemployment. The President must also consider a trigger that starts these programs when unemployment rises and phases them out when unemployment falls, and must include ways to help people return quickly to normal private or public jobs as the economy recovers.