The National Jobs for All Network is dedicated to the propositions that meaningful employment is a precondition for a fulfilling life and that every person capable of working should have the right to a job. Trudy Goldberg interviewed by Democracy at Work's Economic Update: "Using Unemployment Against Workers." NJFAC Newsletter 11/15. The National Jobs for All Coalition is poised to turn a corner.
With new leadership, exciting new projects, and a stunning new website we are in a better position than ever to pursue our version of the American Dream: a living-wage job for all. For too many Americans, unemployment has turned that American Dream into a nightmare.
With new leadership, exciting new projects, and a stunning new website we are in a better position than ever to pursue our version of the American Dream: a living-wage job for all. For too many Americans, unemployment has turned that American Dream into a nightmare.
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In Washington it is much easier to blame unemployed workers for their supposed lack of skills than to blame the bankers whose avarice fueled the housing bubble that eventually brought down the financial system and the economy with it.
Creating training programs is also easier and cheaper than creating jobs.
Most Americans believe that there is a law that protects them from being fired for 'no cause'.
But they're wrong.
When entering the workplace, citizens are transformed into employees who leave their rights at the door.
Creating training programs is also easier and cheaper than creating jobs.
Most Americans believe that there is a law that protects them from being fired for 'no cause'.
But they're wrong.
When entering the workplace, citizens are transformed into employees who leave their rights at the door.
Reserve Army of the Hungry: Is a Job at Starvation Level Wages a Job?
In the industrialised countries in the post-war era, providing workers with the resources to allow for "food security" was not considered that big a deal.
Hunger was an issue for the jobless.
We now have people who are employed, yet need to lean on assistance - either from charities, or governments - to get adequate nutrition.
Real gross fixed capital formation (as a percentage of GDP) and the real interest rate: The U.S. economy (1980-2018) Source: Author's construction based data from the AMECO database.
In the industrialised countries in the post-war era, providing workers with the resources to allow for "food security" was not considered that big a deal.
Hunger was an issue for the jobless.
We now have people who are employed, yet need to lean on assistance - either from charities, or governments - to get adequate nutrition.
Real gross fixed capital formation (as a percentage of GDP) and the real interest rate: The U.S. economy (1980-2018) Source: Author's construction based data from the AMECO database.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and Harry Hopkins, the gifted social worker who administered government relief programs during the Great Depression of the 1930s, preferred to provide work rather than welfare to able-bodied, unemployed persons.
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Thus, in proposing a massive government employment program in 1935, Roosevelt sought to “preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but also their self-respect, their self-reliance and courage and determination” Roosevelt, 1935, para.
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Thus, in proposing a massive government employment program in 1935, Roosevelt sought to “preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but also their self-respect, their self-reliance and courage and determination” Roosevelt, 1935, para.
This republic had its beginning and grew to its present strength under the protection of certain inalienable political rights.
They were our rights to life and liberty.
As our nation has grown in size and stature, however-as our industrial economy expanded-these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.
People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
They were our rights to life and liberty.
As our nation has grown in size and stature, however-as our industrial economy expanded-these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.
People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
In an influential report written during World War II, Full Employment in a Free Society, the British economist Sir William Beveridge defined full employment as "having always more vacant jobs than unemployed men [sic], not slightly fewer jobs."
These jobs, Beveridge stressed, should pay fair wages and be located where the unemployed could be expected to take them.
Beveridge allowed for the existence of some unemployment, but only of a very temporary nature, since those who lose jobs must be able to find "new jobs within their capacity, without delay."
These jobs, Beveridge stressed, should pay fair wages and be located where the unemployed could be expected to take them.
Beveridge allowed for the existence of some unemployment, but only of a very temporary nature, since those who lose jobs must be able to find "new jobs within their capacity, without delay."
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