View this email in your browser Economic Justice, Jobs for All, and the Coronavirus Pandemic Dear Friends and Partners in the Advocacy of Jobs for All, We write to you at this time of national crisis–with compassion and hope for your safety and the future of our country. This dreadful Pandemic is plaguing a nation… Read More Economic Justice, Jobs for All, and the Coronavirus Pandemic
By Trudy Goldberg Twice since World War II Congress has seriously considered a federal job guarantee or, as Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed in his landmark Economic or Second Bill of Rights, “the right to a useful and remunerative job.” Roosevelt considered this assurance of living-wage employment the “first and most fundamental” economic right, because it… Read More The Third Attempt to Achieve a Federal Job Guarantee: What Will It Take?
by Philip Harvey The purpose of this article is to inform readers of legislative initiatives and proposals that address our shared interests and to provide a forum for discussing design options in the drafting of legislative proposals. This article will kick off that process by describing three bills currently pending in Congress that would use… Read More 2019-2020 Legislative Update
DECEMBER 2019 Unemployment Data–the Full Count (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 3.5%* [Analyses] White 3.2% African American 5.9% Hispanic 4.2% Asian¹ 2.5% Persons with a disability¹ 7.0% Men 20 years and over 3.1% Women 20 years and over 3.2% Teens (16-19 years) 12.6% Black teens 20.6% Officially unemployed 5.8 million HIDDEN UNEMPLOYMENT Working… Read More Unemployment Data–DECEMBER 2019
View this newsletter in original formatting in your browser National Jobs for All Network _______________________________________________________________________ P.O. Box 96, Lynbrook, NY 11563 · njfan@njfac.org · www.njfac.org Issue #2, May 2020 In this issue: Coronavirus Demands Bold Government Response The Coronavirus Crisis and Lessons from the New Deal How the New Deal Won World War II, by Bob Leighninger and Harvey Smith Precarious… Read More May 2020 Newsletter
