In today's economy, where the unemployment rate is significantly higher than normal compared to previous years, people are clamoring for solutions from government leaders. There have been plans in the works in the Obama administration to create more jobs, but nothing has come to fruition. Now, as Congress once again teeters toward gridlock, the Republican Speaker of the House and the House Majority Leader have proposed that President Obama include a plan called “Georgia Works” in his latest proposal to Congress. The program would find temporary jobs for people at no cost to employers. These people would also receive vocational training while receiving unemployment benefits or a payment from the government with the hope that they would eventually be hired for full-time work (Calmes). In his State of the Union address, the President included the plan, but it raises the question of the government's reach. Should it be the federal government's responsibility to create programs that will keep Americans employed until they find suitable employment? According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (National), the United States was in a recession from December 2007 to June 2009. During that period the unemployment rate was between 5% and 9.5% (jobs). What confuses many Americans is that, while they are told that the economy is growing and that the recession is over, the unemployment rate is still quite high. In fact, just four months after the “end” of the recession, the unemployment rate peaked at 10.1% in October 2009. Over the past two years it has steadily decreased to the current 9.0%. President Obama proposed the American Jobs Act to correct the unemployment problem in... half of the document... a Journal Of Political Science 54.4 (2010): 906-920. Premier of academic research. Network. November 29, 2011.Edwards, George C., Primo III, Martin P. Wattenberg, and Robert L. Lineberry. Government in America, people, politics and politics. 11th ed. Longman, 2011. Print. “Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey.” data.bls.gov. Bureau of Labor Statistics. nd Web. 28 November 2011. Press office. “Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Act.” whitehouse.gov. The White House. September 8, 2011. Web. November 28, 2011. National Bureau of Economic Research. National Bureau of Economic Research. nd Web. 28 November 2011. “The long-term unemployed: the ravages of time”. The economist. October 1, 2011. np Web. November 29, 2011. Silverleib, Alan. Obama vows to split jobs plan into separate bills after Senate setback. CNN and Web. November 28 2011.