Federal Job Guarantee Documentation wecanhavenicethings.com/nice-things-we-can-have/federal-job-guarantee Conversations about the nation’s budget should be about spending priorities and the resources necessary to accomplish them: the people, materials and time. In 1999, Randy Wray, @mattybram, @ptcherneva and @StephanieKelton brought the Center for Full Employment & Price Stability to UMKC. For two decades, they hosted conferences, advised policy makers, and published volumes of research on the Job Guarantee. Links to their publications are here. This page contains more research, proposals and commentary related to instituting a Federal Job Guarantee; the thinking behind nice things we — the people — can have. Research & Proposals In 2015, Binzagr published Completing the Roosevelt Revolution: Why the Time for a Federal Job Guarantee Has Come. – Pavlina R. Tcherneva (@PTcherneva), Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Nov 2015 Tcherneva maintains Frequently asked questions about the Job Guarantee Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) published The Federal Job Guarantee – A Policy to Achieve Permanent Full Employment — Mark Paul (@MarkVinPaul), William Darity Jr. (@SandyDarity) & Darrick Hamilton (@DarrickHamilton), Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 9, 2018 Macroeconomic Stabilization Through an Employer of Last Resort — Scott Fullwiler (@stf18) SSRN (@SSRN) Dec 10, 2010 Full Employment Through a Job Guarantee: A Response to the Critics — William F. Mitchell, L. Randall Wray SSRN (@SSRN) Jan 1, 2005 The Response —2019— 1/11 https://youtu.be/YfSknFOElRY Fadhel Kaboub – Federal Job Guarantee & Money – the environmental aspects of the Green New Deal and how the Federal Job Guarantee plays an important role in fulfilling the mission. Fight For FJG, March 23, 2019, (56:21) Modern Monetary Realism • Kenneth Rogoff’s criticism of Modern Monetary Theory assumes that MMT advocates don’t care about budget deficits or the independence of the US Federal Reserve. But these assumptions are wide of the mark, and Rogoff himself sometimes undermines his own arguments. — James Galbraith, Project Syndicate (@ProSyn), March 15, 2019 Urban Job Guarantee Scheme: Hope Kindles, At Last • Urban Job Guarantee Scheme of the Congress government will cover 6.5 lakh unemployed youth in urban areas and while it won’t cure the dire joblessness in the state, it has given rise to aspirations — Rakesh Dixit in Bhopal India Legal (@indialegalmedia), March 10, 2019 Why a universal basic income is a poor substitute for a guaranteed job — Claire Connelly, Australia ABC, Jan 18, 2019 Money as a Democratic Medium | The Monetary Case for a Job Guarantee “Significant evidence suggests that employment leads rather than trails economic growth. That conclusion supports programmatic initiatives to create jobs directly in the public sector. At issue here are models that identify sovereign money as a public commitment that anticipates — and enables — productivity rather than expending a finite resource.” — Pavlina Tcherneva (@PTcherneva), Philip Harvey, Rohan Grey (@rohangrey), Darrick Hamilton (@DarrickHamilton), Daniel Sufranski Harvard Law School Jan 10, 2019 (1:35:56) 2/11 https://youtu.be/DcGHYp-LauA Michael Katz hosts this roundtable discussion on the Job Guarantee, featuring L. Randall Wray, Andy Felkerson, Pavlina Tcherneva, Jan Kregel, Mathew Forstater, Fadhel Kaboub, and Felipe Rezende. They talk about the need for full employment, the feasibility of the program, examples of government employment programs, and how it can be paid for. Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity (@GISP_tweets) Jan 7, 2019 (51:50) —2018— Can We Give a Good Job to Everyone Who Wants One? — Editorial The Nation (@TheNation), Nov 27, 2018 A radical plan to give every Australian a job who wants one is gaining momentum •The unconventional plan would eliminate unemployment in Australia, says US economist Stephanie Kelton. — Rosemary Bolger (@Rose_bolger), SBS News, (@SBSnews) Nov 17, 2018 The MMT Podcast: #11 Bill Mitchell: MMT Q&A – central banking, Job Guarantee and more… — Bill Mitchell (@BillyBlog) talks with Patricia Pino (@PatriciaNPino) and Christian Reilly (@christreilly) via REKNR (@reknrmag). Nov 13, 2018 (01:35:22) The MMT government job guarantee • The modern monetary theory can also offer a solution to the nation’s unemployment problems — Stephen Williams Independent Australia, (@IndependentAus) Oct 11, 2018 Why Politicians Want the U.S. to Guarantee You a Job — Katia Dmitrieva (@katiadmi), Bloomberg, Sept 21, 2018 3/11 A Job for Everyone? This 21st-Century Keynes Says It’s Possible William Darity, Jr., a Duke University professor, has pushed the idea of a federal job guarantee into the Mainstream — Mattea Kramer (@MatteaKramer) Ozy, (@ozy) Sept 17, 2018 How a Federal Job Guarantee Can Help the Formerly Incarcerated — Vanessa A. Bee @dolladollabille, New York Magazine, Aug 31, 2018 Popular econ professor advances universal job guarantee plan with Democrats #Deficit — Rita Francesca Loffredo (@loffredo_rita) The College Fix, (@CollegeFix) Aug 22, 2018 There Is Work To Be Done: AI And The Future Of Work — Mark Paul (@MarkVinPaul), Forbes, Aug 18, 2018 https://youtu.be/8fcJavxf2_I Fareed Zakaria talks with Stephanie Kelton on “Making Martin Luther King and FDR’s dream a reality.” #JobGuarantee CNN – GPS Aug 5, 2018 (23:00-28:41) What if you could sue the government for a job? — Jeff Spross (@jeffspross), The Week, (@TheWeek) July 30, 2018 Should Democrats play it safe with a job guarantee? — Jeff Spross (@jeffspross), The Week, (@TheWeek) July 27, 2018 Making a Federal Job Guarantee Work — Joe Weisenthal(@TheStalwart) with William Darity Jr. (@SandyDarity) Bloomberg, July 24, 2018 The MMT Podcast: #5 A Job Guarantee vs a Universal Basic Income — Rohan Grey (@RohanGrey) talks with Patricia Pino (@PatriciaNPino) and Christian Reilly (@christreilly) via REKNR (@reknrmag). July 8, 2018 (01:35:22) Pino asks about UBI at 23:30. What Is A Federal Jobs Guarantee? Growing numbers of Democrats support the idea of guaranteeing decent jobs to all Americans. Here’s how they say it would work. — Laura Paddison (@laurapaddison) HuffPost, July 6, 2018 Do We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee? A Debate. • Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders have all proposed a job guarantee. But would it be drudgery? — Raúl Carrillo (@RaulACarrillo), Rohan Grey (@RohanGrey) In These Times, June 18, 2018 Job Guarantee as Historical Struggle w/ David Stein — David Stein (@DavidpStein) talks with hosts Scott Ferguson (@Videotroph), William Saas (@billysaas) and Max Seijo (@MaxSeijo) Modern Money Network Humanities Division May 27, 2018. (01:06:48) Note: see all Money on the Left podcast titles here. 4/11 Full Employment and Freedom • The fight for a full employment bill forty years ago offers lessons for supporters of a job guarantee today. — David Stein (@DavidpStein) Jacobin (@jacobinmag), May 25, 2018 David Dayen (@DDayen) talks about job guarantee proposals with conservative host Jimmy Sengenberger. — David Dayen (@DDayen) Business for Breakfast on KDMT-AM 1690 in Denver, May 24, 2018 (53:23) Thinking Beyond Trump, Why We Need A Federal Jobs Guarantee — Robert Reich, (@RBReich) Eurasia Review, May 22, 2018 (Cross-posted in Truthdig) Three Ways to Design a Democratic Job Guarantee. — Alexander Kolokotronis, (@AVK48) Truthout, May 20, 2018 The MMT Podcast: #4 What is the Job Guarantee? — Fadhel Kaboub (@FadhelKaboub) talks with Patricia Pino (@PatriciaNPino) and Christian Reilly (@christreilly) via REKNR (@reknrmag). May 4, 2018 (01:35:22) Segregation is alive and well in America’s so-called land of opportunity — just ask black and Latino children • 50 years after the landmark Kerner Commission report, the United States still has a long way to go. #JobGuarantee — Alan Curtis, Fred Harris NBC News, May 13, 2018 A Job Guarantee: A better, cheaper alternative to the Greens’ UBI — Steven Hail (@StevenHail), Independent Australia, (@IndependentAus) May 12, 2018 Why the Latinx Community Should Fight for a Job Guarantee — Alan A. Aja (@AlanAAja1), Raúl Carrillo (@RaulACarrillo), Rita Sandoval (@RitaMSandoval) @LatinoRebels, May 9, 2018 Likely 2020 Democratic Candidates Want To Guarantee A Job To Every American — Danielle Kurtzleben, (@titonka) @NPR, May 8, 2018 Bernie Gets Socialistic • A national job guarantee has opened radical horizons for the Left. We should fight for it — but the devil is in the details. — Max B. Sawicky, (@maxbsawicky) Jacobin, May 7, 2018 Political Aspects of Full Employment • Why do capitalists hate full employment? Because it weakens their power over workers. — Michal Kalecki Jacobin Archives, May 7, 2018 The Guardian view on a job guarantee: a policy whose time has come • Ministers need to adopt measures that secure a basic human right to engage in productive employment — Editorial, The Guardian, May 3, 2018 We Work • Give job guarantee a chance — James K. Galbraith, The Baffler May 2, 2018 5/11 Yes, a Jobs Guarantee Could Create “Boondoggles.” It Also Might Save the Planet. — Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff), In These Times, May 1, 2018 Human capital and the jobs guarantee — Alexandra Scaggs (@alexandrascaggs), Financial Times — Alphaville, April 30, 2018 Calculating the Cost of a Jobs Guarantee — Pavlina Tcherneva (@PTcherneva), Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) Bloomberg, April 30, 2018 Whether America Can Afford a Job Guarantee Program Is Not Up for Debate — David Dayen (@DDayen), The Intercept, April 30, 2018 How much would a job guarantee actually