HR 1000 — “The Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment & Training Act” Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and 43 cosponsors have introduced HR 1000, a comprehensive bill that creates a new national jobs program. HR 1000 recommits the U.S. to seeking a national goal of full employment, where everyone has the right to useful work at… Read More Jobs Legislation Pending Before Congress (2015)
The March for Jobs and Freedom: From 1963 to 2013 NPQ’s Economic Progress Quiz 28 August 2013 The March for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 had a very strong emphasis on jobs and economic equality. As recounted by John Branston at the Memphis CityBeat [8/20/2013], the marchers demanded “a massive federal program to train and… Read More From 1963 to 2013: NPQ’s Economic Progress Quiz
New York Times, November 20, 2012 …. Nearly six million factory jobs, almost a third of the entire manufacturing industry, have disappeared since 2000. And while many of these jobs were lost to competition with low-wage countries, even more vanished because of computer-driven machinery that can do the work of 10, or in some cases,… Read More Skills Don’t Pay the Bills by Adam Davidson
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
