Review of The Case For a Job Guarantee, by Pavlina Tcherneva (Wiley, 2020).An idea whose time has come.
The demand for some version of a federal job guarantee is not new in US politics. Tcherneva highlights that the idea was part of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Economic Bill of Rights, as well as a key issue raised during the Civil Rights Movement. Though there were some impressive federal job programs mounted during the New Deal, the author calls the Job Guarantee “the missing piece of the Roosevelt Revolution.”...
The Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act. signed in to law on October 27, 1978 by President Jimmy Carter and codified as15 USC § 3101, also mandated full employment through US government policy. Effective action on it is overdue.
Jacobin
We Need a Jobs Guarantee Now More Than Ever
Paul Prescod
Jacobin
We Need a Jobs Guarantee Now More Than Ever
Paul Prescod
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Which is more likely to be released, the Humphrey-Hawkins Act or Trump's tax returns?
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