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A Federal Job Guarantee: The Cornerstone of an Equitable Economy
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Thursday, February 18, 2021
12 - 1 pm PT/ 3 - 4 pm ET
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Our country is at a critical turning point where the compounding effects of the pandemic, climate change, systemic racism, and extreme economic inequality require transformative, bold action. A Federal Job Guarantee is one of the most powerful tools to address these interlocking crises and build an equitable economy. Anchored in the civil rights movement’s demands for economic rights and full employment, a job guarantee would establish the right to employment and create public jobs with living wages and full benefits on projects that deliver needed physical and care infrastructure to communities.
By ensuring that every person who wants to work can have a living-wage job, a job guarantee would eliminate involuntary unemployment, reduce racial inequities, decrease poverty, and raise the floor on low-wage work while building stronger and greener communities. As Coretta Scott King once told Congress, no issue “is more important to the elimination of human suffering and to the advancement of the nonviolent ideal than the issue of providing jobs for all Americans.”
Join us to learn why any economic recovery plan must include a Federal Job Guarantee to build an inclusive, thriving, and sustainable future.
Speakers include:
The Honorable Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
Dr. Darrick Hamilton, Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy, The New School
Mary Kay Henry, International President, Service Employees International Union (invited)
Erica Smiley, Executive Director, Jobs with Justice (invited)
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder-in-Residence, PolicyLink (moderator)
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This town hall is co-hosted by PolicyLink, the National Jobs for All Network, and Public Money Action in collaboration with hundreds of organizations and individuals that are a part of the Job Guarantee Now!
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