https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2021/02/23/ayanna-pressley-federal-jobs-guarantee

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) is calling for a federal job guarantee, contending it "lays the foundation for economic justice & freedom." Pressley introduced the resolution last week, which would "provide every person with an enforceable legal right to a quality job," per her office. The program, funded by the federal government, would see the federal government work with communities to provide "public jobs for all adults seeking employment."

Pressley's office described the proposal as a means to achieve "true full employment" while simultaneously reducing "racial and gender inequities":

QuoteBy ensuring everyone has access to a good job with dignified wages, safe working conditions, health care and other benefits—including full worker rights and union protections—a federal job guarantee would address the current jobs crisis while laying the foundation for an equitable economic recovery. It would also set a new standard for quality jobs, pressuring low-wage employers to increase wages and benefits. It would create a pathway to stable employment and begin to close the gaping income and wealth gap for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous workers who continue to face discrimination and are often the "first ones fired, last ones hired" during economic crises. It would also ensure economic inclusion for those experiencing discrimination in the labor market, including people with disabilities, transgender people, caregivers, and people with criminal records or involvement with the criminal legal system. By hiring workers in the midst of a downturn, a permanent job guarantee would operate as an automatic stabilizer, maintaining consumer spending and protecting us from prolonged recessions and jobless recoveries — making the economy more resilient as well as more inclusive.

A summary of the resolution provides an example of "guarantee projects," which include "expanding emergency preparedness," "producing works of public art and documentation," and "augmenting the staffing of public education and early childhood learning."

Pay would begin at $15 per hour and would include benefits such as health insurance, paid sick days, paid family medical leave, vacation, and retirement benefits.

According to a 2018 report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a federal job degree program could cost $543 billion annually, "or just under 3 percent of GDP."

One guy digs a hole the other guy fills it... neither accomplished anything or produced anything of value but they both worked... progressive economics in a nutshell...

They have this in China. They hand you a straw broom and tell you to start sweeping the street.

Pressley expects the Chicoms and rest of the world will continue to give us Iphones, clothing, food, and appliances in exchange for freshly printed greenbacks. That will end as soon as they know we don't have anything to sell them. They won't care how many people we have in the motor vehicle department, teaching, or pushing paper for the government. So by all means, guarantee everyone a government job. Pay each of them BILLIONS of dollars.

She sounds like a lovely woman.

Quote from: taxed on February 23, 2021, 10:46:10 AM
She sounds like a lovely woman.

There's no accounting for taste......though I have to know......are the eyelashes on Miss bowling ball right here, real? Or, are they unreal like her brainless 'federal job guarantee'!

Quote from: Drain The Swamp on February 23, 2021, 11:03:30 AM

There's no accounting for taste......though I have to know......are the eyelashes on Miss bowling ball right here, real? Or, are they unreal like her brainless 'federal job guarantee'!

What a hottie.