Photo by Michael M. Santiago/ Getty Images As left-wing economic policy proposals go, a federal job guarantee has never quite reached prime time status, despite the fact that the underlying idea has been around since at least 1944, when President Franklin Roosevelt proposed it as part of his “Economic Bill of Rights.” Now, with Democrats in control of the federal government and as the nation tries to emerge from the economic devastation of the pandemic, a progressive coalition led by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D‑Mass.) is attempting to push a job guarantee into the political mainstream.
Two weeks ago, Pressley introduced […]
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