Daily Walking, Working, and Winning by God's Word by Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway Sr.

The economy and joblessness are a serious problem throughout America. It appears that employers have cut back and laid-off workers to curtail the costs of doing business. The question on the minds of policy makers and governments is what we can do to stimulate business growth. They reason that by growing the economy you create jobs.

I take a bottom-up approach. Energy must be expended at the local level to engage in enterprises, and business ventures that put people to work performing services and producing goods that people need.

We can no longer wait for public policy, governments or businesses to create the massive numbers of job needed to put people back to work. We need to unleash the entrepreneurial energy and talents of people at the local level and back their efforts to engage in their own enterprises.