Job creation in the midst of a growing economic crisis was a hotly debated topic in the stimulus package as it wended its way through the U.S. Congress. Even if the program succeeds in creating 3.5 million jobs, what kind of jobs will they be? Beth Shulman (DEMOS) and Paul Osterman (MIT) argue that the promise of good jobs that can sustain an American family has been broken. Workers in America face multiple adversities in the labor market that their counterparts in other industrialized countries do not.