It’s Time for the Government to Give Everyone A Job
“The Center for American Progress has been a White House in waiting for mainstream Democratic candidates for over a decade now. When they place something on the agenda, it becomes part of mainstream discussion on the center-left. And at their Ideas Conference this week, they embraced one idea that has been kicking around the left for a long time: guaranteed employment for anyone who wants a job. In ‘Toward a Marshall Plan for America,’ CAP frames this as an answer to growing despair and acute economic pain bred by stagnant wages and lack of opportunity. But few advocates who have been pushing a federal job guarantee for so long were consulted or even cited in the proposal. And while they’re generally thrilled that their life’s work has entered a broader conversation, they’re concerned that something is getting lost in translation.”