Why Doesn’t Washington Hear the Unemployed?

"With 15 million people unemployed, and more than 20 million underemployed, you’ve got a fairly large constituency for action on the jobs crisis. But it’s not a constituency that has any evident power in Washington," the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein writes in his blog on economic and domestic policy. Klein says a number of writers have put forward a variety of explanations why this is. The reasons posed vary greatly.