Noah Smith: Need work? Maybe that should be a job for government.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., recently proposed a federal program guaranteeing a job for anyone who wants one. It’s an idea that sounds a lot more radical than it is. Properly implemented, a job guarantee — or something like it — could be a good way of fighting recessions and getting more Americans into the workforce in the long term.Economist Adam Ozimek, writing in Forbes, wasn’t a fan of Booker’s plan, calling it “absurd” and “insane”:“C