What’s More Important: Long-term Budget Deficits or Unemployment?

A Brookings Institute study suggests that austerity has cost the U.S. economy 2.2 million jobs, noting that “such a large contraction of the public-sector during a recovery is unprecedented in recent American economic history.”

Read it here. 

Now, what do you think?

What is more important to address — long-term budget deficits or unemployment?