By GREGORY N. HEIRES An environmental activist group has included the federal jobs guarantee as a key component of its national campaign to address the climate crisis. The Sunrise Movement’s campaign for a Green New Deal includes a call for investing $10 trillion to create 15 million jobs over 10 years. In March,… Read More Sunrise Movement: Environmental Group Joins the Fight for a Federal Jobs Guarantee
Download PDF >> Proposed Content of a 2020 Democratic Party Platform Pledge of a Federal Job Guarantee: Informed by Analysis of Democratic Party Platforms, 1932-2016, 9/20. Proposed Content of a 2020 Democratic Party Platform Pledge of a Federal Job Guarantee: Informed by Analysis of Democratic Party Platforms, 1932-2016 By Trudy Goldberg and Philip Harvey https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/app-categories/elections-and-transitions/party-platforms This paper consists… Read More Proposed Content of a 2020 Democratic Party Platform Pledge of a Federal Job Guarantee: Informed by Analysis of Democratic Party Platforms, 1932-2016
by June Zaccone, Assoc. Prof. of Economics (Emerita), Hofstra University and member, NJFAC Executive Committee. Special Report 5 June 2015; Graphs have been updated 2/20 If the LFPR were at its pre-recession level, the unemployment rate in September 2013 would have been 10.2% instead of 7.2%. The participation rate and its changes can lead to… Read More The Labor Force Participation Rate and It Trajectory–Why It Matters
A REPORT TO DONORS, SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS By Trudy Goldberg, Chair, NJFAC The Continuing Jobs Crisis: For years NJFAC has called attention to the chronic unemployment that blights the lives of millions of individuals and families, even in the best of times. We have been deeply concerned about this problem — even in times of… Read More GOODJOBS Newsletter: Supplement 4, December 2013
Battling Unemployment in the Great Recession and Its Aftermath: A Report to the EuroMemo Group from the National Jobs for All Coalition Well before the economic crisis of 2008, the National Jobs for All Coalition (NJFAC), like the EuroMemo Group, was concerned about the problem of unemployment. With the onset of the Great Recession, the… Read More GOODJOBS Newsletter: Supplement 3, Fall 2012
