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The latest from news outlets and blogs around the Northwest and beyond, chosen by Crosscut editors.

Who will get blamed for high unemployment for young people?

A conservative worries that the liberals are much more on top of this issue than the conservatives, who are feuding with each other.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

You could be paying for some YouTube videos soon

YouTube is expected to announce a new plan to allow some content creators to charge a monthly subscription for their videos. Children's channels, entertainment and music are among the genres expected to use the subscription option. But, a vast majority of YouTube's videos will remain free. 

NEW YORK TIMES

Samuelson: the skills gap is mostly fiction

The problem is that employers lack confidence to hire, not that there are not skilled workers out there.

WASHINGTON POST

Jobs growth is easing fears of double-dip recession

The latest jobs data shows the economy is creating jobs, despite drops in federal expenditures.

NEW YORK TIMES

A progressive formula for restarting the national economy

Will Marshall writes: "What if progressives made expanding production rather than consumption the organising principle of their economic policy? What if they tackled the imperatives of economic investment, innovation and wealth creation with the same passion they normally reserve for fairness and wealth distribution? Stronger economic growth by itself may not be sufficient to reverse the disturbing rise of economic inequality. But it is the necessary precondition for progressive success in getting people back to work, lifting the middle class, allaying class friction and nativism, and restoring the allure of market democracy."

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
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