{"id":9519,"date":"2018-06-02T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2023-03-01T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:23:38","slug":"may2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2018\/06\/02\/may2020\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2020 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"templateContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"templatePreheader\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this newsletter in original formatting in your browser<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"templateHeader\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">\n<div><strong>National\u00a0Jobs for All\u00a0Network<\/strong><br \/>\n_______________________________________________________________________<br \/>\n<strong>P.O. Box 96, Lynbrook, NY 11563\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00b7\u00a0njfan@njfac.org\u00a0\u00b7 www.njfac.org\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Issue #2, May 2020<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">In this issue:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"mctoc\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc1\">Coronavirus Demands\u00a0Bold Government Response<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc2\">The Coronavirus Crisis and Lessons from the New Deal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc2\">How the New Deal Won World War II, by Bob Leighninger and Harvey Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc3\">Precarious Work in the Pre-COVID Economy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc4\">Job Quality Index<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc5\">The Fight to Raise the Minimum Wage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc6\">We Need a New Civilian Conservation Corps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc7\">The Poor People\u2019s Campaign Launches Digital\u00a0Mobilization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc8\">Ohio University Budget Battle Presages Nationwide Public Sector Fightback<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc9\">Rent Strikes Hit New York City, Philadelphia and\u00a0Other Cities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc10\">An International Call to Democratize and\u00a0Decommodify Work<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc11\">New York Assembly Member Patricia Fahy Proposes New Public Job Creation Program for Pandemic Recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc12\">Jobs for All: A Prosperity Economy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc13\">The Full Count: Unemployment Data for April 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc14\">How High is Unemployment?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686#mctoc15\">Get Involved!!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc1\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>Coronavirus Demands\u00a0Bold Government Response<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>A Job Guarantee is the Centerpiece of the\u00a0National Jobs for All Network Plan\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By GREGORY N. HEIRES\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Jobs for All Network unveiled a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/economic-justice-jobs-for-all-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comprehensive plan<\/a>\u00a0in April to combat the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The plan calls for immediate assistance for the millions of Americans, especially the poor and minorities, whose lives have been devastated by the public health crisis and the ensuing economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus crisis demands action of an even greater the magnitude than the New Deal response to the Great Depression, which came close to causing a total economic and political collapse in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a bolder government response than we\u2019ve yet to see in our lifetimes,\u201d said Trudy Goldberg, chair of the National Jobs for All Network. \u201cThe government unemployment statistics released in May are the worst on record. The June numbers are expected to be even worse, with as many as a quarter of our workforce officially jobless, and the real count in the 30% range.\u201d (See &#8220;The Full Count,&#8221; below.)<\/p>\n<p>The Network\u2019s proposals for \u201cRelief, Recovery and Reform\u201d provide a blueprint for creation of a more just and equitable society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dreadful Pandemic is plaguing a nation already suffering from persistent, deeply divisive, and destructive economic inequality\u2014a nation thus particularly poorly prepared to deal with this crisis,\u201d the plan states.<\/p>\n<p>The public health and consequent economic crisis is exacerbated by\u00a0the chronic economic, social, and physical insecurity that beset millions of Americans, even in the best of times.<\/p>\n<p>Crises are opportunities to take action against long- standing problems. The NJFAN plan calls for far-reaching government action and expresses a hope and need for a broad-based social mobilization to seize this opportunity for change.<\/p>\n<p>Measures to combat the Great Recession failed to address chronic and growing economic and social inequality. The country must not pass up the opportunity for social reconstruction this time, the plan says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Worse than the Great Recession<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Characterized by mass contagion and an economic free fall, the coronavirus crisis presents a greater public policy challenge than economically induced crises like the recent Great Recession.<\/p>\n<p>The government prevented the Great Recession from turning into a depression by bailing out the financial sector and providing compensation for lost work and income to maintain consumption, restore jobs and hold down employment.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it took nearly a decade for the unemployment rate to reach its pre-recession rate of 4.7 percent. And the government response to the recession failed to address the deep-seated precariousness of work, structural employment, and poverty\u2014challenges that today point to the need for more far-reaching responses, including the establishment of a guarantee of living wage work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immediate Relief<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plan identifies a number of immediate steps to provide relief to millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and been otherwise adversely affected by the pandemic&#8211;and to put the country on the path to recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed relief includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the provision of federal government benefits to individuals and families, such as food, shelter, health-care assistance and a suspension of rent and mortgage payments, medical and consumer debt, and student loans<\/li>\n<li>federal government leadership and responsibility for universal coronavirus testing, medical care, and sufficient medical equipment and<\/li>\n<li>adequate pay, benefits and protection for front-line health-care workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The NJFAN plan also calls for a form of unemployment insurance that matches what a number of European countries have done.<\/p>\n<p>These countries are providing government assistance to enable businesses to keep workers on payroll during the crisis. In contrast, the practice in the United States is to provide workers with unemployment benefits without any assurance that they will be able to return to their jobs after the economy recovers.<\/p>\n<p>The Network\u2019s proposal notes that coronavirus crisis has exposed many unmet human needs. These include national health care; paid sick leave; strengthening of collective bargaining rights; affordable housing; cancellation of student debt; tuition-free public higher education; universal broadband access; the guarantee of a living wage of more than $15 an hour; expanding Social Security benefits; and a stronger national voting system that ensures everyone has the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Job Guarantee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The centerpiece of the plan\u2014drawing inspiration from New Deal programs like the Conservation Corps and Workers Progress Administration\u2014is a federal \u201cJob Guarantee\u201d implemented through direct government job creation program.<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, the job guarantee would fulfill what President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed in his Economic Bill of Rights in 1944. His landmark proposal called for the right to a job along with other benefits, including a good education, a decent home, and security in old age.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the network\u2019s proposed Job Guarantee would not only open the political space for the establishment of those benefits, but it would also help the federal government address climate change. A Green New Deal, for instance, would provide many job opportunities. This would help workers who lose their jobs as the country moves away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The new Job Guarantee, the NJFAN plan says, \u201cwould help neutralize the most powerful deterrent to the adoption of policies to combat climate-change\u2014a fear of job loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plan concludes, \u201cThis is why we believe that as soon as workers are able to safely begin returning to work following the COVID-19 public health crisis, the New Deal direct government job creation strategy should be deployed to provide work for everyone who wants it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the plan, click here:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/economic-justice-jobs-for-all-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/\">https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/economic-justice-jobs-for-all-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please post your comments and suggestions in the the box at the<a href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/economic-justice-jobs-for-all-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0bottom of the blog page<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">\n<h2 class=\"null\"><strong>Debate and Discussion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc2\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>The Coronavirus Crisis and Lessons from the New\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Deal<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em>Pointing out that our fight against the deadly\u00a0<\/em><em>coronavirus is comparable to engaging in a war, Robert Leighninger and Harvey Smith assert in their article shared here that New Deal measures to combat the Great Depression equipped the United States for victory in World War II.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In today\u2019s war, too, we face mass unemployment.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When it is safe to work again, a Job Guarantee\u2014inspired by the New Deal government job creation model\u2014would, as we argue in \u201cEconomic Justice, Jobs, for All, and the Coronavirus Pandemic\u201d (see the lead article of this issue), be the best policy to combat unemployment and speed recovery.\u00a0 Leighninger and Smith discuss New Deal policies that contributed to victory in the 1940s, policies which, updated to fit 21st century conditions to include universal access to health care, would help us to achieve victory over this pandemic\u2014and a much more egalitarian and healthy society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Indeed, had we adopted a Job Guarantee featuring\u00a0<\/em><em>New-Deal-type government job creation programs,\u00a0<\/em><em>we would have been much better prepared for\u00a0combat this 21st century world war.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"null\"><strong>How the New Deal Won World War II<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>By ROBERT LEIGHNINGER and HARVEY SMITH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have often heard that it wasn\u2019t the New Deal that ended the Great Depression; it was the war.\u00a0We\u00a0don\u2019t think that\u2019s true, but rather than resurrect that\u00a0debate, we\u2019d like to turn it on its head:\u00a0 The war was\u00a0won by the New Deal.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding this is helpful to our current challenge.\u00a0We can mount a comprehensive war against the varied menaces of pandemic, massive unemployment, and environmental collapse because we once did something just as formidable.<\/p>\n<p>We want to frame this argument carefully. We will focus on programs initiated by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration to put people to work, revitalize the economy, and end the Great Depression. Programs enacted during the New Deal that were designed specifically to prepare for war will be left out.\u00a0This is a tricky line to walk. Roosevelt was aware quite early in his administration that a war was likely, and he may have been thinking of the possible benefits that New Deal programs would have for future preparation for war. But all of the early New Deal initiatives and many of the later ones were targeting the Depression.\u00a0Furthermore, isolationist sentiment was strong enough that it would have been impossible to gain support for anything that might be tainted with militarism.\u00a0The New Deal would not have been accepted unless it was totally about the Depression.<\/p>\n<p>We also want to leave out anything of which it might be said: \u201cWell, that would have happened anyway, regardless of who was in the White House, once it was apparent that war was coming.\u201d Our argument is that the programs that re-employed the U.S. workforce and re-energized the economy also were vital in providing a solid foundation of experience, personnel, and infrastructure that allowed us to meet, early and effectively, the threat of the Axis Powers and the Japanese Empire.\u00a0Such programs would not have been initiated by another administration. They would not have happened without the New Deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personnel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was designed in 1933 to employ young men adrift in the jobless economy, to support their families, and to restore a ravaged landscape by planting trees, stopping soil erosion, fighting forest fires, building a system of state parks, and enhancing national parks and forests.\u00a0The boys learned construction skills, learned to cooperate with other young men of diverse backgrounds, furthered their education, and made lasting contributions to our environment across the nation.\u00a0The camps were supervised by U.S. Army Reserve officers, so the boys learned to follow orders and even perform close-order drill.\u00a0 Many went on to the armed services even before the war.\u00a0They were immediately identified by drill sergeants as potential leaders; an instant promotion to corporal was not unusual.\u00a0Because the Reserve officers had to lead not just through fear of punishment but by inspiring confidence, they were, in the opinion of Gen. George C. Marshall, much better prepared for the range of recruits produced when the draft was imposed. Forty CCC \u201cboys\u201d would earn our highest military award, the Medal of Honor; half of them died in combat.\u00a0Tossing the coin to begin the 1919 Super Bowl was Hershel \u201cWoody\u201d Williams, who served with the CCC in Montana and then cleared enemy pillboxes with a flamethrower on Iwo Jima.\u00a0 Gen. Mark Clark said, \u201c\u2026the CCC became a potent factor in enabling us to win the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 was created to stabilize the airline industry.\u00a0 One aspect of this was the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP).\u00a0The Army had little interest and offered no support in getting the bill through the U.S. Congress.\u00a0Money was borrowed from the National Youth Administration, an offshoot of the Works Progress Administration.\u00a0By 1940, almost 10,000 pilots and 2,000 instructors had been trained.\u00a0 The program was open to African Americans.\u00a0 One of them was Robert J. Friend, who flew 142 missions with fellow Tuskegee Airmen of the Red Tail Squadron.\u00a0 He was wingman for Benjamin O. Davis, who became the first black Air Force general.\u00a0 Women were also enrolled, and over a thousand of them became Women\u2019s Army Service Pilots (WASPs). They were vital to the transportation of warplanes from their point of manufacture into the hands of combat pilots.\u00a0 One of them was Betty Jane Williams, who served 28 years in the Air Force and retired as a lieutenant colonel. These women flew all types of aircraft, including the new B-29, which had a reputation for being hard to handle.\u00a0The men got over their trepidation once they saw WASPs flying them.\u00a0Another career Air Force officer (who was also a test pilot), Rear Adm. Edward Feightner, was trained by the CPTP and became an ace flying Hellcats in the Pacific Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Secure communication is essential to combat operations.\u00a0Language must be encoded. One code that was never cracked by our enemies was the Navajo language.\u00a0The U.S. Marines used Navajo code talkers to coordinate our troops as they re-took Pacific islands from the Japanese.\u00a0 Up until the New Deal, Navajo children were sent away to boarding schools and forbidden to speak their native language.\u00a0The Public Works Administration built day schools on the Navajo reservation allowing students to stay home with their families. John Collier, the New Deal\u2019s commissioner of Indian Affairs, stopped forced assimilation and championed Navajo culture.\u00a0Thus, the young men who would become code talkers in the 1940s had almost a decade free from suppression of their language.\u00a0They were able to accept the challenge of turning their language into an unbreakable code.\u00a0Major Gen. Howard Conner asserted that without the code talkers the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Public Works Administration (PWA) was created to provide grants and loans for public construction projects that would put people back to work and restart the economy.\u00a0Much of this work would be undertaken by cities and states building the backbone of our cultural and physical infrastructure<em>\u2014<\/em>schools, hospitals, courthouses, bridges, libraries and other kinds of public amenities. At the beginning of the New Deal those municipal bodies took some time to prepare their proposals. In the meantime, the PWA turned to cabinet departments that already had projects that needed funds.\u00a0One was the Navy Dept. The PWA provided funding for two aircraft carriers, four cruisers, 20 destroyers, and four submarines.\u00a0One carrier, the USS Enterprise, and a heavy cruiser, the USS Vincennes, escorted the USS Hornet as it launched the first counter-strike after Pearl Harbor, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle\u2019s raid on Tokyo.\u00a0The Enterprise helped stop the Japanese invasion of New Guinea at the Battle of the Coral Sea and, along with the carrier USS Yorktown, was essential in winning the Battle of Midway. This engagement is regarded by both Americans and Japanese as the turning point in the Pacific War.\u00a0 The other New Deal vessels played important roles in support of the Guadalcanal campaign, the island-hopping reconquest of the Pacific, the liberation of the Philippines, and final assault on the Japanese homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Airports are essential in the development of military power.\u00a0The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built 350 landing fields and improved many others, extending runways, adding lighting, and building terminals and hangers.\u00a0Wold-Chamberlain Field, now Minneapolis\/St. Paul International Airport, got three large concrete runways, which enabled it to be the site of the re-fitting of the B-25 Mitchell bombers that conducted the Doolittle Raid. The same field provided training for the Waco gliders used in the D- Day Invasion.\u00a0 Nearby Holman Field, built entirely by the WPA, re-fitted B-24 Liberator bombers with radar. The PWA was also active in airport construction. They expanded Barksdale Field in Louisiana into a major Army Air Corps base. New Deal infrastructure helped keep soldiers alive.\u00a0The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 supported the construction of four regional experimental laboratories.\u00a0The British, who had invented penicillin, did not have the facilities for making it available for use by combat medics.\u00a0 They turned to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, which developed the process in their Peoria, Ill., experimental lab.\u00a0 This probably saved thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest investments made by the New Deal in the U.S. economy was in the development of hydroelectric power.\u00a0Massive dams, built by the PWA and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), provided water and electricity to agricultural, industrial, and research facilities all over the country. They also controlled flooding and improved navigation. Assessing this impact is difficult, but it was undeniably huge.\u00a0Hoover Dam, called Boulder Dam until 1947, together with Parker Dam, Imperial Dam, the Colorado River Aqueduct (constructed earlier), and the All-American Canal brought water to Los Angeles and turned the Imperial Valley into the \u201cWinter Garden of America.\u201d\u00a0The Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams on the Columbia River provided similar benefits to the Pacific Northwest.\u00a0The eventual implications for national defense are immense, but two examples will suffice for a beginning.\u00a0The aluminum industry flourished with the introduction of hydropower, and it is estimated that the electricity from the Grand Coulee dam made the aluminum for about one-third of the planes build during WWII.\u00a0The atom bomb that ended the war was made possible because of New Deal hydroelectric projects. Oak Ridge, Tenn., needed an enormous amount of electricity, which it got from the TVA, to enrich uranium. The water from the Columbia River dams cooled the nuclear reactors that produced plutonium at Hanford, Wash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beyond personnel and infrastructure, the many agencies and organizations spawned by the New Deal gave thousands of people the experience and skills that could be immediately transferred to war activities.\u00a0Henry Kaiser, Warren Bechtel, and Bechtel\u2019s son Stephen, who collectively had a huge impact on American ship-building, learned how to manage large construction as part of the six companies that built Boulder Dam.\u00a0 It required working directly with the federal government, cooperating with other contractors, and managing projects the sheer size of which were a new phenomenon in U.S. industry.\u00a0William Knudsen, who headed General Motors and was tapped by Roosevelt to head war production, had extensive experience dealing with the New Deal from the beginning of the National Recovery Act. When war arrived and industry needed to respond immediately, these years of experience gave the massive mobilization needed to create the \u201carsenal of democracy,\u201d a giant assist.<\/p>\n<p>Defense projects like Oak Ridge and defense industries around the country needed housing for workers.\u00a0The Lanham Act of 1940 built it. But this operation rested on years of experience building housing provided by the PWA\u2019s Housing Division, the Resettlement Administration and the United States Housing Administration. The private sector\u2019s lack of experience in this area was displayed by the miserable conditions for workers and their families in places like Henry Ford\u2019s B-26 bomber plant at Willow Run outside Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Artistic experience was useful to the war effort too.\u00a0The WPA\u2019s Federal Art Project included thousands of graphic artists who moved immediately to create images promoting enlistment, safety, and security.\u00a0Soon-to-be famous Abstract Expressionist painters Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollack designed window displays for war training programs.\u00a0The photographic division of the Farm Security Administration, which used arresting images captured by famous artists like Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn to dramatize the miseries of the Depression, was easily transformed into the Office of War Information<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are all very specific assets that enhanced preparation for war but sprang from programs not intended for that purpose but rather to defeat the Great Depression. We can look beyond them to the general effects of the anti-Depression programs that restored the economy and strengthened the health, safety, and level of education of the U.S. population. When the war came, the United States would have mobilized to defend itself.\u00a0All of these things might have happened in time.\u00a0But how many years would it have taken to achieve what the New Deal accomplished in the five years between 1933 and 1938?\u00a0 By 1938, the New Deal was not only well on the way to ending the Depression, it had already laid the groundwork for the defeat of the Axis Powers and Imperial Japan. The New Deal won World War II.\u00a0Knowing that, why shouldn\u2019t we be able to devise a comprehensive Green New Deal that reshapes our national policies to confront the war we now face on three fronts: health, employment, and the environment?\u00a0We have nothing to fear but lack of will.<\/p>\n<p><em>New Deal scholar Robert Leighninger is a National\u00a0Jobs for All Network board member. Harvey Smith is chair of the board of the National New Deal Preservation Association and author of\u00a0<u>Berkeley and the New Deal<\/u>\u00a0(Arcadia, 2014).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We encourage readers to submit comments and reflections on this piece on the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/28\/the-coronavirus-crisis-and-lessons-from-the-new-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NJFAN Blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><strong>News Briefs<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc3\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>Precarious Work in the Pre-COVID Economy<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s ability to boast about overseeing an economy in which unemployment reached a 50-year low was short-lived because of the virus-induced economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But the true story, as pointed out in an editorial note in the February issue of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/2020\/02\/01\/mr-071-09-2020-02_0\/\">Monthly Review<\/a>\u00a0Magazine, is that the administration\u2019s track record on jobs never matched the rosy public relations platitudes emanating from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The editorial points out that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wages have remained stagnant\u00a0even though mainstream economists say pay should go up when the economy is strong<\/li>\n<li>newly-created jobs tend to be poorly paid and lack good benefits. In the last three decades, 63 percent of all new production and nonsupervisory jobs have had low wages and insufficient hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The factors behind the precariousness of work include a decline in unionism, an historically low labor participation rate, underemployment, the degradation of working conditions, rising inequality, a weak welfare state, job and income loss from free-trade agreements, and structural unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that even then, the economy was \u201cfar from full employment,\u201d the editorial recommends readers take a look at our Jobs for All Manifesto published on MR Online in November 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monthly Review article link:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/2020\/02\/01\/mr-071-09-2020-02_0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/2020\/02\/01\/mr-071-09-2020-02_0\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leave a comment about precarious work on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/28\/precarious-work-in-the-pre-covid-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NJFAN Blog<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">\n<h2 class=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/13adfa22-b828-49a6-8c6d-4c68a7f409a3.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"168\" data-file-id=\"4918074\" \/><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Trudy Goldberg Interviewed on Democracy at Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BY SHEILA COLLINS<\/strong>National Jobs for All Network Chair Trudy Goldberg appeared March 18 on the podcast Democracy at Work.<\/p>\n<p>Among the topics Goldberg and host Richard Wolff discussed were the undercounting of official unemployment figures by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the effect of this underestimation of the problem; the workplace implications of full employment or a Job Guarantee; and the deep deprivation inflicted by unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg pointed out that real joblessness is more than double the official unemployment rate. For example, in February 2020, the official unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, or 5.8\u00a0million people. That was only a portion of real joblessness.\u00a0Another 4.3 million people were working part-time but wanted full-time work, and 5.0 million more wanted work but weren\u2019t looking, perhaps because they were discouraged or lacked child care or\u00a0transportation. Thus real joblessness at a time of record low unemployment, was 15.1\u00a0million, 2.6 times the official count.<\/p>\n<p>One effect of underemphasizing the problem, Goldberg emphasized, is political. Mobilization,\u00a0movement-building and the political response to a\u00a0social condition depends partly on whether the problem affects many people.\u00a0Undercounting diminishes public attention and political responses to a social condition.<\/p>\n<p>Wolff and Goldberg talked about the effects of genuine full employment, one of which is\u00a0to strengthen the position of workers and the extent to which they are assertive and press for their rights. If workers fear unemployment, they are less likely to stand up for their rights. With a Job Guarantee, they can still be fired but know they can find another job. This advantage to workers\u00a0is one reason employers oppose full employment&#8211;because it robs them of a major means of disciplining\u00a0the workforce and keeping it\u00a0submissive.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg discussed how unemployment disproportionately afflicts African Americans and other minorities as well as young workers, who begin their working lives with poor prospects for employment and future economic security. Unemployment robs people of the ability to practice the work ethic, which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called, \u201cthe creed of our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyatwork.info%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C7bcb0026fb46481b1f1408d801d297d1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637261351491968284&amp;sdata=qU0EAj9ynSAMrzdCPdgBWhFFDPS6g4lga8%2FoAXhbFiQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democracy at Work<\/a>\u00a0host Wolff is professor of\u00a0economics\u00a0emeritus at University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York.<\/p>\n<p>To Hear the Whole Interview,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/863a22db63c8\/national-jobs-for-all-network-may-2020-newsletter?e=994ec41686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc4\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>Job Quality Index<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>For years, progressive economists have pointed out that abstract government statistics such as the Gross Domestic Product fail to provide a true picture of the economic well being of ordinary Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The new monthly U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index is an effort to fill this gap. Cornell Law School, along with the Coalition for a Prosperous America, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, unveiled the measure in November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the JQI is to provide a measure of quality of jobs. It studies the jobs of private-sector production and nonsupervisory workers, who account for more than 80 percent of all workers in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of jobs is measured by weekly wages. High-quality jobs are defined as jobs with weekly wages above the mean for all jobs. Low-quality jobs fall below the mean.<\/p>\n<p>As a measurement of the total of all the goods and services produced within a nation\u2019s boarder, the GDP is an indicator of the overall health of the economy. As it does not express the distribution of income or quality of jobs, it is a poor indicator of the well-being of households.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to Job Quality Index:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jobqualityindex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>https:\/\/www.jobqualityindex.com\/<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc5\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>The Fight to Raise the Minimum Wage<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>As the country looks to climb out of the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, policymakers are already debating how government should help the millions of low-wage workers who lost their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Before the virus-induced economic downtown, full-employment advocates pointed to recent evidence of the crucial role the minimum wage plays in improving the lot of our country\u2019s most vulnerable workers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, research by the National Employment Law Project showed that state and county minimum wage initiatives reversed the decline in pay that millions of low-wage workers experienced after the Great Recession hit the country in 2009. That occurred while the real wages for most U.S. workers remained below 2009 levels.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom fifth of workers gained close to a 4 percent wage increase in states where minimum wages were raised between 2013 and 2018. By contrast, in the states without minimum wage increases, the bottom fifth did not experience real wage growth while suffering a .5 percent decline since the end of the recession.<\/p>\n<p>But as the workers of the Fight for 15 movement and their supporters mobilize to improve the livelihood of underpaid workers, conservative politicians are doing their best to block those efforts.<\/p>\n<p>A 2019 study by NELP examined 12 cities and counties that passed a higher local minimum only to see their state legislatures invalidate those initiatives and prohibit local minimum wages.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201cpreemption\u201d laws resulted in an annual loss of nearly $1.5 billion in the wages of nearly 350,000 workers, disproportionately women and people of color. For individual workers, the loss amounted to about $4,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum wage story link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nelp.org\/publication\/minimum-wage-increases-reverse-post-recession-wage-declines-workers-lowest-paid-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minimum Wage Increases Reverse Post-Recession Wage-Declines for Workers with Lowest-Paid Jobs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preemption story and report links:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nelp.org\/news-releases\/report-workers-lose-billions-wages-thanks-corporate-campaign-block-local-minimum-wage-increases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Workers Lose Billions in Wages, Thanks to Corporate Campaign to Block Local Minimum Wage Increases\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ THE REPORT:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nelp.org\/publication\/fighting-wage-preemption\/\">Fighting Wage Preemption: How Workers Have Lost Billions in Wages and How We Can Restore Local Democracy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/s27147.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fighting-Wage-Preemption-Report-7-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc6\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>We Need a New Civilian Conservation Corps<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has led to calls for the government to revive the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the New Deal jobs program that helped the United States get through the Great Depression decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>The CCC, a\u00a0federal work program, paid unskilled and unemployed young men $30 a month to serve in various work projects around the country.<\/p>\n<p>The voluntary public relief program, which operated from 1933 to 1942, employed 3 million men. The CCC\u2019s 300 projects included work on fire lookout towers, foot trails, erosion control, planting of trees and shrubs, landscape and recreation, fish stocking and even pest control.<\/p>\n<p>In just months, the coronavirus has wiped out the number of jobs \u2013more than 23 million\u2014that were created over the last 10 years since the Great Recession. The country\u2019s dire jobless picture\u2014a projected quarter of the workforce\u00a0could be unemployed by next month\u2014cries out for a CCC-like federal public works program and Jobs Guarantee.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/portside.org\/2020-05-07\/should-america-consider-restarting-civilian-conservation-corps-response-economic-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/portside.org\/2020-05-07\/should-america-consider-restarting-civilian-conservation-corps-response-economic-crash<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Mobilizing for Economic Justice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc7\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>The Poor People\u2019s Campaign Launches Digital\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Mobilization<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/78d86926-dc58-4224-918d-84ffe8ef3715.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/78d86926-dc58-4224-918d-84ffe8ef3715.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"248\" data-file-id=\"4911982\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Poor People\u2019s Campaign is going digital. The nationwide grassroots group&#8211;which is dedicated to the struggle for economic justice and a moral revival in\u00a0our country<em>\u2014<\/em>will on June 20 hold the largest digital\u00a0and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth\u00a0people, moral and religious leaders, advocates, and\u00a0people of conscience in this nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The global coronavirus pandemic is exposing\u00a0more than ever the existing crisis of systemic racism, poverty,\u00a0ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism, and the distorted moral narrative of\u00a0religious nationalism.<\/p>\n<p>On June 20, the 140 million poor and low-income people across this nation will be heard!<\/p>\n<p>More info:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poorpeoplescampaign.org\/june2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.poorpeoplescampaign.org\/june2020\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc8\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>Ohio University Budget Battle Presages Nationwide Public Sector Fightback<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Public sector workers around the country are bracing deep budget cuts caused by the severe economic downturn\u00a0resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>An early warning sign of how the crisis threatens public services and public employees is what&#8217;s happening at Ohio State University where the faculty and the administration are negotiating over how to meet an anticipated 20 percent budget cut for the coming school year.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, as many as 1 million public employees could be laid off as states and cities implement budget cuts in response to the coronavirus recession, according to estimates.<\/p>\n<p>The $2.2 trillion CARES Act approved by the federal government in March provided $150 billion to state and local governments to help defray the costs of the public health emergency. But state and local officials say the federal assistance is way too low.<\/p>\n<p>The National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties and the U.S. Conference of Mayors have\u00a0asked for $250 billion more in aid.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the budget cut announcement in April, the Ohio University faculty association called for a freeze on the bonuses of administrators and temporary pay cuts for the most highly paid faculty<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc9\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>Rent Strikes Hit New York City, Philadelphia and\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Other Cities<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Millions of tenants across the country began a rent\u00a0strike on May Day as they struggled to deal with the\u00a0economic fallout of the coronavirus recession.<\/p>\n<p>The bold action on May 1, coordinated by activists in\u00a0New York City, Philadelphia and the Bay Area, is\u00a0seen as the largest rent strike in history. In April, an\u00a0estimated third of the country\u2019s tenants stopped\u00a0paying rent.<\/p>\n<p>The tenants are demanding that landlords and politicians recognize the need for rent forgiveness as\u00a0the country faces its most grave employment crisis since the Great Depression. They are calling upon the\u00a0federal and state governments to support rent\u00a0cancellation, provide financial relief, and prohibit evictions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/05\/cancel-rent\/611059\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/05\/cancel-rent\/611059\/<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">\n<h2 class=\"null\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/7f94e5b1-5f68-474b-a902-f7c7b9c7b436.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"45\" data-file-id=\"4915106\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"mctoc10\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>An International Call to Democratize and\u00a0Decommodify Work<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>More than 4,000 researchers across all five continents\u00a0on May 15 signed onto the op-ed, \u201cLet\u2019s democratize\u00a0and decommodify work,\u201d which was published in 25\u00a0languages and 41 newspapers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The manifesto is an urgent call to rewrite the rules of\u00a0our economic system in the midst of an\u00a0unprecedented health, climate and political crisis\u00a0intensified by COVID-19, and is made up of the\u00a0following three core principles: democratize (firms),\u00a0decommodify (work), and remediate (policies) in\u00a0order to respect planetary boundaries and make life\u00a0sustainable for all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Work: Democratize, Decommodify, Remediate\u00a0<\/strong>is an\u00a0initiative launched by a core\u00a0working group of eight\u00a0leading women scholars working on democratic\u00a0governance, securing the right to employment,\u00a0participatory democracy and social justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 To read the full Op-Ed, please see The\u00a0Guardian:\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/may\/15\/humans-%20resources-coronavirus-democratise-work-health-lives-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humans are not resources. Coronavirus<br \/>\nshows why we must democratise work<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Core group members:<\/p>\n<p>USA &#8211;\u00a0Julie Battilana, Harvard Business School<br \/>\nUSA &#8211;\u00a0Helene Landemore,\u00a0Yale University<br \/>\nUSA &#8211;\u00a0Pavlina Tcherneva, Bard College<br \/>\nFRANCE &#8211;\u00a0Julia Cag\u00e9, Sciences Po Paris<br \/>\nFRANCE &#8211;\u00a0Dominique M\u00e9da, Universit\u00e9 Paris<br \/>\nDauphine<br \/>\nBELGIUM &#8211;\u00a0Isabelle Ferreras, University of<br \/>\nLouvain<br \/>\nGERMANY &#8211;\u00a0Lisa Herzog, University of Groningen<br \/>\nSPAIN &#8211;\u00a0Sara Lafuente Hernandez, European<br \/>\nTrade Union Institute<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 To learn more about the initiative and join a group of more than 4,000 signees from all over the world,<br \/>\nplease visit:<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/democratizingwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0https:\/\/democratizingwork.org\/<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc11\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>New York Assembly Member Patricia Fahy Proposes New Public Job Creation Program for Pandemic Recovery<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em><strong>Public Works Program to Focus on the Creative Economy, Youth, and Environment<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>ALBANY, N.Y. \u2013\u00a0Assemblymember Patricia Fahy (D \u2013 Albany) announced today she\u2019s introducing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/462021462\/WPAPR-LBD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/462021462\/WPAPR-LBD&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590613888637000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGMn9VehdFWGuO5615VwWsO7uBpmw\">legislation<\/a>\u00a0to create a New Deal-style \u2018Works Progress Administration-Pandemic Recovery\u2019 jobs program, targeting Millennials and youth who\u2019ve been among the hardest hit. The global COVID-19 pandemic has created a catastrophic level of joblessness in New York State with over a million people out of work, a 13% unemployment rate, and the U.S. economy in disarray on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. Troubling economic forecasts have raised questions about how many of these jobs, such as in retail and the food industry, will ever return.<\/p>\n<p>A modern, statewide version of the original WPA \u2013 created in 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt \u2013 the WPA-PR would help stem the economic damage from the COVID-19 crisis through creating a short-term job creation program. Under this legislation, the New York State Department of Labor (NYS DOL) would approve eligible projects such as: contact tracing, conservation and climate change mitigation, boosting New York\u2019s creative economy, and enhancing the agricultural sector. The result would be the creation of a new American cultural juggernaut, a new statewide green workforce, and a lasting, meaningful public investment in the youngest part of our labor force.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/458582133\/WPA-Delegation-Letter?fbclid=IwAR3kiDzuGUgLHwmOPBcrIhW6XxEgj4825YHcdxNCeiCsCaXPqq70TwGLjCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/458582133\/WPA-Delegation-Letter?fbclid%3DIwAR3kiDzuGUgLHwmOPBcrIhW6XxEgj4825YHcdxNCeiCsCaXPqq70TwGLjCQ&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590613888637000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE4ve_6GVpZT7fz--ExpRUpOpS3uQ\">April 28<\/a>\u00a0to New York\u2019s Congressional Delegation, Assemblymember Fahy, joined by two dozen of her colleagues, urged members to prioritize creation of a federal level, national WPA-style jobs program to address the new economic challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. An April 30\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/albany\/news\/2020\/04\/30\/guest-column-new-works-progress-admin-fahy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/albany\/news\/2020\/04\/30\/guest-column-new-works-progress-admin-fahy.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590613888637000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH8wNkryMOhw38GVPo_6gSCSqQ-ag\">Albany Business Review<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/altamontenterprise.com\/04302020\/case-21st-century-wpa-we-must-be-bold-well-practical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/altamontenterprise.com\/04302020\/case-21st-century-wpa-we-must-be-bold-well-practical&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590613888637000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGztw8uTeTe_cWa2c9x5V6ETVUMUw\">Altamont Enterprise<\/a><\/em>\u00a0opinion piece echoed this call for a massive mobilization of national resources and modern investment in our nation\u2019s workforce. In the absence of such action on the federal level, New York State can mitigate the economic impact of this crisis through taking bold action such as the creation of a state-level WPA-PR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York State has the been the hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis and the economic devastation requires a bold, short-term, public works job program like the WPA-PR to restart and reinvigorate our state\u2019s economy,\u201d said\u00a0Assemblymember Patricia Fahy.\u00a0\u201cNearly one-third of those under 35 are out of work with the majority in low-wage, retail sector, or gig-economy jobs. Creating the WPA-PR would provide young New Yorkers with good-paying jobs in the creative economy and bolster the state\u2019s arts and cultural institutions. A bold investment like the WPA-PR would help create and train a new state green workforce, build clean-energy infrastructure, and reinvigorate the promise of the American Dream in NY.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Assembly Member Fahy News Release, 5\/18\/20.\u00a0 \u00a0Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/altamontenterprise.com\/04302020\/case-21st-century-wpa-we-must-be-bold-well-practical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Case for New WPA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/altamontenterprise.com\/04302020\/case-21st-century-wpa-we-must-be-bold-well-practical\">: W<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/altamontenterprise.com\/04302020\/case-21st-century-wpa-we-must-be-bold-well-practical\">e Must Be Bold as Well as Practical<\/a>, Altamont Enterprise, 4\/30\/20.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The National Jobs For All Network (NJFAN) is reviewing the proposed NY bill, and providing expert advice to the sponsors about the proposed public job creation program.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Job Guarantee Pledge<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"templateBody\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/f0ad15a1-94eb-4159-a771-e137593ff1d2.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"235\" data-file-id=\"4818217\" \/><a name=\"mctoc12\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>Jobs for All: A Prosperity Economy<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em>Imagine a country:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Where everyone who wants to work has a living-wage job.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Where no one needs to cobble together multiple jobs to make ends meet.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Where joblessness and its consequences no longer exist.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Where millions are working in concert to heal our environment, rebuild our physical and care infrastructure, and renew our public art.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Where the basic right to a job is at last guaranteed.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>We face a crisis of economic insecurity.<\/strong>\u00a0At this moment of economic and ecological upheaval, when pervasive economic insecurity and racial exclusion exist alongside concentrated wealth and a sweltering planet, the United States needs a strategy to build an economy that produces economic security and dignity for all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A federal Job Guarantee is our way forward.<\/strong>\u00a0By ensuring every person who wants to work can find a good job meeting vital community needs, a federal Job Guarantee can be the cornerstone of an inclusive, thriving, and sustainable 21st\u00a0century American economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join us in calling for a federal Job Guarantee<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 our path to an American economy centered around human value. Show your commitment to a Job Guarantee by signing this Jobs for All Manifesto.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>National Jobs for All Network<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>PolicyLink<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Modern Money Network<\/strong>[Plus many other signatories!\u00a0 \u00a0Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jobguaranteenow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.JobGuaranteeNow.org<\/a>\u00a0to see full list]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>BACKGROUND<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE NEED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The inability to provide good jobs for all even in the best of times is a key failure of the American economy<\/em><\/strong>\u2014one that reinforces inequities, squanders human potential, and takes a tremendous toll on society. Despite a booming economy, millions of workers remain jobless or underemployed, more than 40 percent of workers earn less than $15\/hour, and 40 percent of Americans cannot afford a $400 emergency. This is neither sustainable nor necessary. From Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s inclusion of guaranteed living-wage work in his Second Bill of Rights, to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King\u2019s call for guaranteed jobs in the fight for racial and economic justice, to the call by environmental justice advocates for a Job Guarantee in the Green New Deal, visionary leaders know a Job Guarantee is a potent solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE BENEFITS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Good jobs for all would become our reality.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0With a Job Guarantee, the devastating experience of not finding work would become obsolete. People facing discrimination in the job market would have an alternative to going without or going underground. Workers would no longer be stuck in jobs where they are harassed or unsafe, or where they experience wage theft. No workers would need to toil in poverty-wage jobs with unstable and disruptive schedules. Poverty, racial and gender inequity, and working poverty would all decline. And when the next downturn hits, workers could take up guaranteed jobs, moderating the effects of the recession for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>We could revitalize communities and counter climate change.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0A Job Guarantee would make it possible to meet neglected community needs and manifest community aspirations. It could deliver on the environmental restoration and energy-efficiency projects needed to address climate change. It could help meet our demands for elder care for our aging population, strengthen our child care infrastructure, and support our public school teachers. It could make public art accessible to all and bring new resources and hope to hard-hit local economies. And a Job Guarantee removes a major barrier to countering our environmental crisis: fear of job loss.<\/p>\n<p>Signed,<\/p>\n<p><strong>National Jobs for All Network<br \/>\nPolicyLink<br \/>\nModern Money Network<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[list in formation &#8211; see full list at:\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jobguaranteenow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.JobGuaranteeNow.org<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TAKE ACTION<\/strong>:\u00a0 If you agree with the statement, please\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/aYUU8Qu9tBMVSZ3VAhttps:\/\/www.jobguaranteenow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Endorse the Job Guarantee Pledge<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by filling out this\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/aYUU8Qu9tBMVSZ3VAhttps:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSco-oj3n-bO5Ywk5CZb_iVOeo_Kj2En9Th3TfEQaZo30xhN3g\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">form<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll list you and\/or your organization as a supporter, and keep in touch with you as proposals for a federal Job Guarantee move forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEARN MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.policylink.org\/blog\/ten-principles-federal-job-guarantee\">10 Principles for a Federal Job Guarantee<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.policylink.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Federal%20Job%20Guarantee%20Leaders%20Demand%20Economic%20Security%20and%20Dignity%20for%20All_12-11-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Job Guarantee Leaders Demand Economic Security and Dignity for All<\/a>\u00a0 News Release\u00a0<\/strong>(12\/11\/19)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><strong>True Unemployment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc13\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>The Full Count:<br \/>\nUnemployment Data for April 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/5700b5ec-beda-4032-a0e4-d35b4966c859.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\" data-file-id=\"4818277\" \/><br \/>\nOfficially unemployed: 23.1 million (14.7%)<\/strong><\/strong>Hidden unemployment: 20.8\u00a0million<br \/>\n(Includes 10.9 million people working part-time<br \/>\nbecause they can&#8217;t find a full-time job;<br \/>\nand\u00a09.9 million people who want jobs,<br \/>\nbut are not actively looking)<br \/>\nTotal: 43.9 million (26.4% of the labor force)There are 7.1 job-wanters\u00a0for each available job!For more information and analysis, visit:<a href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/08\/unemployment-data-april-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0www.njfac.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><a name=\"mctoc14\"><\/a><a name=\"mctoc14\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\"><strong>How High is Unemployment?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div><strong>By FRANK STRICKER<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The official unemployment rate for April was 14.7 percent, and the number of unemployed was 25.4 million people.<\/p>\n<p>That last figure is about as large as the total population of Scandinavia. It\u2019s a big number.<\/p>\n<p>The 14.7 unemployment rate is already higher than recession peaks in 1975, 1982, and 2009. It\u2019s the highest level since 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>But real the numbers are\u00a0even\u00a0worse.<\/p>\n<p>The National Jobs for All Network believes the true unemployment rate for April amounted to 26.4 percent. The official rate does not account for hidden unemployment, which includes people who wish to be employed but have given up on searching for work and part-time workers who want full-time jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The future looks bleak.\u00a0\u00a0There is no new stimulus in place yet. Whatever is approved will take time to implement.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, many businesses will never re-open or they will collapse from lack of customers. Also, many of the unemployed may be eager to get back to work, but they aren\u2019t thrilled about the prospect of getting very sick at work, or giving up pretty good unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The next official unemployment rate may be in the 20s with as many as one in four workers losing their jobs as a result of the economic fallout from the coronavirus. 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