THE UNEMPLOYED SPEAK* 1. Jack was laid off after 17 years as a mechanic when his plant was relocated in Mexico. Unable to find a comparable job, Jack is working at Walmart at a fraction of his previous wage. Answer: Jack is a casualty of unemployment, but he is counted as employed, despite his downgrading.… Read More Can You Count the Unemployed? an NJFAC Quiz
1. “Jobs for All, Economic Justice, and the Challenge of Welfare ‘Reform’,” Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Journal of Public Health Policy, 1997. 2. “Building a Movement for Full Employment,” Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and Sheila Collins, from Social Policy, Spring 1998. 3. “Social Security: The Phony Crisis”, Helen Lachs Ginsburg, testimony to NYC Council, April 1998 4.… Read More Reprint Series
September 25, 2000 FIVE YEARS CLOSER TO ECONOMIC JUSTICE: A Proposal by the National Jobs for All Coalition Preamble Imagine a society without poverty. Imagine a society in which all people who want and need to work have jobs that enable them to earn a living adequate for health and well-being. Imagine a society in… Read More Five Years Closer to Economic Justice: A Proposal to the National Council of Churches of Christ, U.S. A.
By Mathew Forstater, Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri-Kansas City [2002] The 1963 “March on Washington” was officially named the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” a detail that often gets lost amid the important celebration of the general achievement and highlights such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther… Read More “Jobs for All”: Another Dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York Times, December 1, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html …. …there is ample evidence that racial inequities remain when it comes to employment. …. College-educated black men, especially, have struggled relative to their white counterparts in this downturn, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate for black male college graduates 25… Read More In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap, Michael Luo, NY Times
