This Labor Day, let's acknowledge why our job-creation machine is broken

``"Under our current conditions, creating shareholder value and creating good jobs are largely incompatible," Davis wrote in his Brookings piece. "Corporations are ‘job creators' only as a last resort."... And start-ups? Davis studied 1,600 companies that went public over 14 years beginning in 2001. He found that the median IPO company increased its employment by 51 people. That's not a typo, folks.''