University of Chicago Press, 2023. Reviewed by Trudy Goldberg In this ambitious, important book–especially for advocates of economic justice—economist Mark Paul “offer[s] a comprehensive prescription that aims to address the problem of persistent economic insecurity in America, one based on an expanded notion of American freedom and grounded in an alternative model of economic thought.”… Read More Book Review: The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights, by Mark Paul
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
August 28, 2023, marked the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is often forgotten that Dr. King’s dream was not only to have legal civil rights for African Americans but also economic justice for all poor, marginalized groups in the United States. One of the demands of that march was for… Read More Archived Panels from August Commemoration of the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom
A Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of 1963 Historic Washington March for Jobs and Freedom (Panel Discussion) Wednesday, August 2, 2023, 1:00 p.m ET virtual panel discussion Sixty years ago this summer, hundreds of thousands of Americans convened in Washington, DC to advocate for civil and economic rights for all. While best known for Dr. Martin Luther… Read More A Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of 1963 Historic Washington March for Jobs and Freedom (Panel Discussion)
by Philip Harvey* Paper Presented at the International Post Keynesian Conference University of Missouri at Kansas City Sept. 17, 2016 *Professor of Law and Economics Rutgers Law School pharvey [at] rutgers.edu https://njfac.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/What-is-Full-Employment-and-Why-the-Definition-Matters-revised-1.pdf ABSTRACT: In the wake of the dotcom boom in the late 1990s, a growing number of progressive economists began referring to 4% unemployment… Read More What is Full Employment – and Why the Definition Matters
