Posted on 04/23/2018 12:14:09 PM PDT by Simon Green
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will unveil a plan for the federal government to guarantee a job paying $15 an hour and health-care benefits to every American worker “who wants or needs one,” embracing the kind of large-scale government works project that Democrats have shied away from in recent decades.
Sanders's jobs guarantee would fund hundreds of projects throughout the United States aimed at addressing priorities such as infrastructure, caregiving, the environment, education and other goals. Under the job guarantee, every American would be entitled to a job under one of these projects or receive job training to be able to do so, according to an early draft of the proposal.
A representative from Sanders's office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be paid for, saying they were still crafting the proposal.
Sanders joins two other rumored 2020 Democratic presidential contenders who have expressed support for the idea of a jobs guarantee. The push reflects a leftward move in the party's economic policy, away from President Barack Obama's use of public-private partnerships or government incentives to reshape private markets and toward an unambiguous embrace of direct government intervention.
Job guarantee advocates say their plan would drive up wages by dramatically increasing competition for workers, ensuring that corporations have to offer more generous salaries and benefits if they want to keep their employees from working for the government. Supporters say it would also reduce racial inequality, since black workers face unemployment at about twice the rates of white workers, as well as gender inequality, since many iterations of the plan call for the expansion of federal child-care work.
“The goal is to eliminate working poverty and involuntary unemployment altogether,” said Darrick Hamilton...
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What if you’re a lousy employee? Can you be fired?
Bernie,
Every American doesn’t WANT a job. They just want you to make sure they get their gubmnt stuff fo free.
Does Bernie’s plan also feed the unicorns with proceeds from stolen Leprechaun gold?
The goal is equal misery for all.
Government jobs will result in huge taxes on the productive combined with inflation.
What was it that Lenin said? Something like, “We will grind the bourgeoisie between the twin millstones of taxes and inflation.”
Bwahahahahaha. Why not promise everyone a billion dollars? That would be just as reasonable a proposition.
Welcome back to the days of FDR.
Slaves can’t be fired.
Of course, they also can’t quit either.
Very simple!
Vote for Trump and those who will implement his plans.
A chicken in every pot.
I believe the unemployment rate in the old USSR was 0%.
Sounds like Huey “Every Man A King” Long.
He’s a little late. Right now just about everyone who wants one has found a job. They are hiring everywhere.
Oh, yea. That part. They will just raise income taxes to 150% for all the "RICH" people. Done!
They'll just do what Stalin did, make you do prison labor.
Will everyone have to wear the same uniform???
Plan first. Pay for it later. Sheesh.
Maybe some redundant obamacare navigators looking for gig
It’s communism.
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