Hassett Has Solution to Unemployment: More Government Jobs

President Donald Trump's top economist has an unusual idea for dealing with the problem of long-term unemployment: Just have the government hire people.That's a New Deal-style idea more closely associated with highly progressive Democrats. But Kevin Hassett, the conservative chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, believes some Americans are so disconnected from the workforce that the best idea to get them working again could be a federal jobs program that would ultimately lead to private-sector employment.