DeLong Smackdown Watch of the Day for June 17, 2010: Duncan Black

In response to my question:

What Do We Know About Policies to Successfully Move the Long-Term Unemployed Back to Where They Ought to Be?

Duncan Black writes:

We Could Hire Them To Dig Holes And Fill Them Up Again: I'm kidding, just, but the way to get people working is to hire them. The way to do that is not to set up a program, or a subsidy, or a grant, which is administered through some office, which is then used by some business or nonprofit, which maybe eventually...