A job that provides good wages, strong benefits, union protections & safe working conditions should be a legal right in America.
Individuals and families deserve true economic justice, and that’s why Ayanna just filed a historic resolution calling for a federal job guarantee.
The idea that all people should have a right to employment that ensures a dignified standard of living has deep roots in American history. Championed by Sadie Alexander, America’s first Black economist, a job guarantee was a core demand of the civil rights movement, in pursuit of both racial and economic justice.
A federal job guarantee would provide every person with an enforceable legal right to a quality job — with a living wage and critical benefits — to support projects that meet long-neglected community, physical and human infrastructure needs, such as delivering quality care for children and seniors, building and sustaining 21st-century transit systems, strengthening neighborhoods, and protecting the environment.
Funded by the federal government and implemented locally in deep partnership with communities, the program would provide a pathway to stable employment and begin to close the gaping income and wealth gap for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous workers.
By ensuring everyone — including people with disabilities, transgender people, caregivers, and people with criminal records or involvement with the criminal legal system — has access to a good job with dignified wages, safe working conditions, health care and other benefits — including full worker rights and union protections — a federal job guarantee would address the current jobs crisis while laying the foundation for an equitable economic recovery.
By hiring workers in the midst of a downturn, a permanent job guarantee would operate as an automatic stabilizer, maintaining consumer spending and protecting us from prolonged recessions and jobless recoveries.
Thank you so much for your support. Together we will achieve economic, racial, and social justice for all of our communities.
In solidarity,
The A-Team
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