Category: Solutions

Booker, Watson Coleman Reintroduce Legislation to Establish a Pilot for a Federal Jobs Guarantee Program

February 12, 2026 News Release from the office of Sen. Cory Booker WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12) reintroduced the bicameral Federal Jobs Guarantee Development Act, legislation that would establish a model federal jobs guarantee program in up to 15 high-unemployment communities and regions across the United States. Thanks… Read More Booker, Watson Coleman Reintroduce Legislation to Establish a Pilot for a Federal Jobs Guarantee Program

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Book Review: Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter, by Juliet B. Schor

Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter, by Juliet B. Schor. Harper Business, 2025 by Trudy Goldberg Economist Juliet Schor and her colleagues conducted the largest trial of the reduced work week ever to take place—245 organizations, eighty-seven hundred employees, in eight countries on four continents.… Read More Book Review: Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter, by Juliet B. Schor

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8/27 WED @ 1 PM Webinar > Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?

Sixty-two years ago, 250,000 people convened in Washington, DC to demand “meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages” for all workers. The March on Washington was not merely a moral appeal to the nation, but also an economic one.   Today, that dream of full employment remains unfulfilled. Join the Center for Economic Policy Research’s webinar… Read More 8/27 WED @ 1 PM Webinar > Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?

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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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