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Educate Yourself
- WATCH: Beyond Trump: A Federal Jobs Guarantee, Robert Reich, Moveon and Inequality Media
- Why The Cause of Full Employment is Back From The Dead, Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect
- Why Democrats should fight for the right to a good job, Katrina vanden Heuval, The Washington Post
- The Federal Job Guarantee: A Step Toward Racial Justice, Darrick Hamilton, Dissent
- The Case for a Federal Jobs Guarantee, Erik Loomis, NYTimes
- We Work, James K. Galbraith, The Baffler
- If Democrats want to stand with the people, they should back a jobs guarantee, Ross Barkan, The Guardian
- Whether American Can Afford a Job Guarantee Program is Not Up For Debate, David Dayen, The Intercept
- The Government Should Guarantee Everyone a Good Job, Ady Barkan, The Nation
- Why Democrats Should Embrace a Federal Jobs Guarantee, Sean McElwee, Colin McAuliffe, Jon Green; The Nation
- Toward a Marshall Plan for America, Neera Tanden et al., Center for American Progress
- A Job for Everyone, Mark Paul, U.S. News and World Report
- Is it time for a New ‘New Deal?’, Christopher FaricyThe American Prospect
- Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee, Mark Paul, William Darity Jr., & Derrick Hamilton; Jacobin
- The Federal Job Guarantee – A Policy to Achieve Permanent Full Employment, Mark Paul, William Darity Jr., & Derrick Hamilton; CBPP
- When Did the Democratic Party Platform Abandon Full Employment?, The Daily Kos
- Rise Up vs. Trickle Down Economics, Robert Reich, Moveon
- Working Harder or Finding it Harder to Work, Valerie Wilson and Janelle Jones, EPI
- How the Civil Rights Movement Aimed to End Poverty, A Phillip Randolph & Bayard Rustin, The Atlantic
In the News
- The bad economics of PAYGO swamp any strategic gain from adopting it, Josh Bivens, EPI
- The Poor People’s Campaign is Changing the Moral Narrative of Congress, John Nichols, The Nation
- Likely 2020 Democratic Candidates Want to Guarantee a Job to Every American, Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR
- A Guaranteed Jobs-For-All Program Is Gaining traction Among 2020 Democratic Hopefuls, Kate Aronoff, The Intercept
- Honoring Dr. King’s Call for a Job Guarantee Program, Fadhel Kaboub, New Economic Perspectives
- Another Trump Failure: Infrastructure, Katrina vanden Heuval, The Washington Post
- Trump’s Infrastructure Con, Robert Reich, Moveon