Category: Job Guarantee

A Work-Based Policy Package That Would Dramatically Reduce Poverty

By David Riemer These are the components of the work-based policy package that I designed to greatly increase employment and earnings, dramatically reduce poverty, and expand the middle-class: A national Transitional Jobs program…like the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) A much higher federal minimum wage…roughly $17.50/hour A restructured and bigger Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Renewal… Read More A Work-Based Policy Package That Would Dramatically Reduce Poverty

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The Jobs and Human Rights Task Force: Jobs For All’s Connecticut Arm

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

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Book Review: The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights, by Mark Paul

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

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Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Ilhan Omar and Jamaal Bowman Introduce Fully Funded Federal Job Guarantee Program

June 3, 2024 Today, Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Ilhan Omar (MN-05) and Jamaal Bowman (NY-16) introduced the Workforce Promotion and Access (WPA) Act. The WPA Act would establish a fully-funded federal jobs program, targeted to support communities with exceptionally high unemployment rates. The program would be fully paid for by a 0.1% tax on Wall Street stock trades. The jobs encompass… Read More Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Ilhan Omar and Jamaal Bowman Introduce Fully Funded Federal Job Guarantee Program

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Review of The Case for a Job Guarantee by Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Polity Press (2020) 

by Sheila D. Collins Pavlina Tcherneva, a Professor of Economics at Bard College and a Research Scholar at the Levy Institute, has written a concisely, argued case for a federal job guarantee within the context of a Green New Deal. Citing its origins in FDR’s 1944 Economic Bill of Rights and the U.N.’s Universal Declaration… Read More Review of The Case for a Job Guarantee by Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Polity Press (2020) 

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