Trudy Goldberg, Chair National Jobs for All Network Dear Friends, I’m happy to write to you with some good news—in these challenging times! We’ve just completed several years of Strategic Planning to determine—How Best to Use a Generous Bequest from NJFAN co-founder Helen Lachs Ginsburg to further our advocacy of living-wage work for all. And now—We… Read More 2024 NJFAN Funding Appeal Letter
by Sarianna Sabbarese In Connecticut, soaring wealth and deep poverty are practically neighbors. A microcosm of the income and wealth inequality that negatively impacts so many Americans, Connecticut has become an important site for the National Jobs for All Network (NJFAN) to begin laying state-level groundwork for a Federal Job Guarantee. The CT Jobs and… Read More The Jobs and Human Rights Task Force: Jobs For All’s Connecticut Arm
by Trudy Goldberg Chief among the sources of inspiration for the National Jobs for All Network is this ground-breaking proposal of Franklin Roosevelt–for a Second or Economic Bill of Rights. In his 1945 State of the Union Address–when he repeated this call for a Second Bill of Rights–FDR referred to the guarantee of employment as “the… Read More The Economic Bill of Rights and the National Jobs for All Network
NJFAN: National Jobs For All Network P.O. Box 96, Lynbrook, NY 11563 • njfac [at] njfac.org • http://www.njfac.org • tel. 203-856-3877 Dear Friends, For nearly 30 years, the National Jobs for All Network has “kept alive the dream” of Full Employment or a Job Guarantee—of a nation where unemployment ceases to exist and where decent, useful living-wage… Read More Keeping the Dream Alive!! 2023 NJFAN Appeal Letter
Member of NJFAN Outreach Committee and Board Secretary, National Council of Gray Panthers Networks Clint Smith, who died on May 13, was a regular member of the NJFAN Outreach Committee since 2014, providing members with regular updates on justice issues and struggles in Austin TX and the National Council of Gray Panthers Networks activities. Beverly Alves,… Read More Remembering Clint Smith, 1936-2023
