Commentary Op-ed by National Economic Council Director Gene B. Sperling in Today’s Wall Street Journal: The Case for the President’s Jobs Act by Gary Kopycinski on October 21, 2011 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Commentary: Heteronormativity: Grappling with Straight Privilege March 24, 2026 Former Park Forest Mayor Ostenburg Implores Chicago Cardinal Cupich to Care for St. Irenaeus Property December 16, 2025 An Angel Now Guards Our Friends in Blue: Park Forest Mourns the Loss of #204, Detective Tim Jones December 4, 2025 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2011. The full text of an op-ed by National Economic Council Director Gene B. Sperling is printed below. The piece was published in today’s Wall Street Journal.