Editorial Board

Obama's Budget Has at Least One Good Idea

Wage insurance would get more people back to work.

February 10, 2016 at 4:36 PM UTC

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President Barack Obama’s final budget has just been released, and it’s going nowhere. The House and Senate budget committees say they won’t even bother to question the president’s budget director on the plan.

That’s a shame because the new proposal has ideas worth examining, and some deserving of bipartisan support. One especially is worth a look: so-called wage insurance.