The Problem With a Job Guarantee 
Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market.
Fall 2024
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The Problem With a Job Guarantee
Responses to Fred Block
Two responses to “The Problem With a Job Guarantee.”
From Fossil Capitalism to Green Democracy
An interview with Kate Aronoff about her new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back.
The New Demand for an Old Idea: Guaranteed Jobs Now
The demand for genuine full employment broadens our imagination of what a federal government committed to caring for its people would look like.
Socialism and the Liberal Imagination
How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.
Fully Automated Luxury Socialism: The Case for a New Public Sector
With ever more job-killing robots on the horizon, it’s time to demand a new public sphere: one that guarantees not just jobs but leisure too.
Making College Free Could Add a Million New Black and Latino Graduates
Bernie Sanders’s plan for higher education would go a long way toward improving graduation rates, raising incomes, and lowering unemployment among millennials—African Americans and Latinos most of all.
[VIDEO] Income For All! Two Visions of a New Economy
Should the left champion jobs for all or advance a basic income as part of a broader anti-work politics? Can we do both? Watch a special panel discussion with Alyssa Battistoni, Darrick Hamilton, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, and Jesse Myerson.
Income for All: Two Visions for a New Economy
In a special roundtable, Kathi Weeks, Darrick Hamilton, and Alyssa Battistoni examine the contending proposals for a universal basic income and a federal job guarantee.
The Federal Job Guarantee: A Step Toward Racial Justice
A federal job guarantee would go a long way toward addressing racial disparities and building an inclusive U.S. economy.
[EVENT] Income for All! Two Visions for a New Economy
Should the left champion jobs for all or advance a basic income as part of a broader anti-work politics? Can we do both? Join Dissent, Jacobin, and the New Economy Coalition for a panel discussion, November 9 in Brooklyn.
