Category: Solutions

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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NJFAN and a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights

By Philip Harvey From its founding in 1994, the goal of the National Jobs for All Network* has been a federal government commitment to ensure the availability of useful, living-wage work for every job seeker in the country—regardless of local or national economic conditions. Chief among the sources of inspiration for our goal is President… Read More NJFAN and a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights

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Proposed Content of a 2020 Democratic Party Platform Pledge of a Federal Job Guarantee: Informed by Analysis of Democratic Party Platforms, 1932-2016

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

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