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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Sounds like he wants a renewal of the Civilian Conservation Corps from the FDR era. Or, he will draft folks into the military and the Ameri-corps for mandatory government service. Of course there this the age old problem of “where will the government get the money to spend on all of these program?” And we know the two answers to that: Increase taxes and print money.
I hear there’s a great demand for government paper shufflers also for government shovel leaners.
It’s over, Bernie.
The parade has gone by.
“The goal is to eliminate working poverty and involuntary unemployment altogether,” said Darrick Hamilton...
right- because the rats “war on poverty” has gone so well in the past...
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,”
Term limits, no grandfather clause, NOW. Thanks Simon Green.
“I believe the unemployment rate in the old USSR was 0%.”
They also had “social parasite” laws making it illegal to not have a job or refuse one assigned to you.
B.S. is a nut job. He’s Vermont’s finest sap.
100% employment?.....That’s called ‘Slavery’....................
How is it going to paid for?
If you lose your job, how is the guarantee going to work?
Voters like the word “free” but balk at the price tag.
Would be nice to have a government Santa take care of every one but that’s not the way the real world works.
Bernie, that programs has been around for years.
It’s called: “Get out of bed and go to work”
Bernie will be offering a free ride to moon or Mars in order to win the WH in 2020. And those who support him believe everything he says.
Oh yes! Shovel Ready Jobs.
I see them almost every day on the road repair crews.
Chubby black, white and Hispanic women leaning on shovels on the side of the road.
Actually Bernie’s plan is to have the Trix rabbit steal the Leprechaun’s Lucky Charms and feed the unicorns with that.
Sounds a lot like Ayn Rand’s book “Anthem”....
Just a little ole government takeover of the rest of the economy.
mom always said, don’t put bernie in the House.(white)
Sure Bernie, ditch-digging jobs just like your commie pals liked to pass out while imprisoning their respective populaces?
How about that union? No thanks.
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