Posted on 08/01/2013 6:53:33 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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Persistent high unemployment has produced a crisis for virtually all Americans. But we can resolve the crisis by adopting a federal job guarantee for all citizens. A system of job assurance, rather than unemployment insurance, could have been implemented at any point by presidential directive under the mandate of the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 (popularly known as the Humphrey-Hawkins Act).
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has proposed a new bill: the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act, which could pave the way for implementation of a federal job guarantee.
The idea is straightforward: any American 18 years or older would be able to find work through a federally funded public service employment program -- a "National Investment Employment Corps."
The basic idea has been endorsed by policy analysts as disparate as Kevin Hassett from the American Enterprise Institute and Jared Bernstein from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. The Congressional Black Caucus included the proposal in their budget and deficit commission report in 2011.
Each National Investment Employment Corps job would offer individuals non-poverty wages, a minimum salary of $20,000, plus benefits including federal health insurance. The types of jobs offered could address the maintenance and construction of the nation's physical and human infrastructure, from building roads, bridges, dams and schools, to staffing high quality day care.
The program would include a training component to equip employees with the skills necessary to fill state and municipal needs.
(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...
(The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act)
"CETA worker" became a national joke.
They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work.
"The right of individual citizens to sell their work products or labor to other individuals or corporations on mutually agreed terms may not be abridged by any government agency, labor collective, health insurer, environmental extremist, or any other rent-seeeking Socialist whack-job who is trying to get a cut of the proposed compensation arrangement for himself."
Enforce it, and there will always be plenty of jobs.
the Empire is planning to build an army of droids!
If the Republicans have not been able to defund PBS and NPR, then its obvious they don’t have the power defund Obamacare
Not sustainable and I am not advocating in any way, but get involved in an all out war. Military numbers rise, manufacturing rises, population thins...
I have a cousin who rode THAT gravy train for YEARS.
She was a dyed in the wool Liberal. Made 80K right out of college and moved, with her lawyer husband, into a swank sub urban neighborhood ... where they never once in their entire lives SAW much less bothered with a minority of ANY description.... yes sir... CETA!!
I remember it well. “winterizing” old folks homes by tacking some plastic sheeting over the windows and raking leaves in the parks. A sad joke indeed.
“From each, according to his abilities. To each, according to his needs.”
This man is an idiot. In the history of our nation, have we ever had millions starve to death? Now, let’s take a look at The Soviet Union and China and North Korea. Millions have starved to death using the ideas this man advocates. He is advocating murder.
***The idea is straightforward: any American 18 years or older would be able to find work through a federally funded public service employment program***
Anything like WPA (We piddle around) from the FDR era?
And how do you get people to work who just don’t want to work! My worthless brother-in-law (If you know him he probably owes you money) is a fine example.
I remember a story (but not the origin) where somebody was watching a crew of Chinese laborers doing shovel work (where using a front end loader would be appropriate) and telling the Chinese official that if they used tablespoons instead, they could hire a lot more people.
We’re already paying people to NOT work, do drugs and squirt out fatherless chirin. Can we stop spending $1 trillion per year in welfare entitlements? Think of the last welfare sow you saw at the grocery store. Now, imagine her working anywhere, much less on a highway or dam.
The USSR had a zero unemployment rate.
That may have been me. I worked in China in ‘76 - ‘77 starting up the power systems in new fertilizer factories. In the Yunnan province, I would see their shiny new HUGE front-end loaders hauling cabbages around while nearby laborers were doing awful drudge work. In one case, they had poured a concrete chimney foundation too high and they had an army of men chipping away at it with homemade chisels and hammers. My interpreter used this as a fine example that “China has no unemployment.” He was a smart young man and always told me this with a wry smile. He was also a incredibly talented concert violinist, but The State said their quota of concert violinists was filled so he was made an interpreter and sent to the far hinterlands on these projects.
My thanks to the author of the article. I haven’t had a good deep belly laugh like that in a long time!
I can hardly type thinking about the “partnerships” with community NGO’s and no bid contracts to be let out.
I’m sorry...I just can’t go on....
I totally agree with this, as long as American companies also bring back American jobs.
As in, we change tax laws to stop encouraging “US” companies to go elsewhere.
Right now we have the worst of both worlds.
Our employers are going overseas (have been now for a full generation), and once people lost their jobs - they just sit around and receive government support.
1) Make them work for the support (that will encourage people to find jobs instead)
2) But this it the real important point. BRING BACK AMERICAN JOBS.
At the moment however, I would support this.
As long as we also change tax laws, to bring back American companies.
Another WPA, the Works Progress Administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s time wasting, money wasting program which paid people to lean on their shovels while supposedly repairing the streets. And the poverty-stricken taxpayers were forced to pay for it. NOT AGAIN!
Merely 20k? This is not a living wage. This is not compassionate.
I say the minimum salary must be at least 200k, plus a new vehicle, plus housing for an entire family.
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