NJFAN Moves Ahead With Ambitious Partnership Project to Create Federal Job Guarantee Dear Friends, In writing to you this year, we celebrate an exciting new chapter in NJFAN’s advocacy of the fundamental human right to living-wage work! After a national search for a dynamic director to head the Job Guarantee Project–a partnership of NJFAN and… Read More 2025 Year End Report and Annual Appeal Letter
Cortney Sanders, NJFAN Institute Director New York, NY — [September 11, 2025] — The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy (the Institute) at The New School is proud to mark a new chapter in its mission to ensure meaningful employment as a fundamental human right. In partnership with the National Jobs for All Network (NJFAN), the Institute welcomes Cortney… Read More Cortney Sanders Selected as NJFAN Institute Director to Lead National Campaign to Secure the Right to Good Jobs for All
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
