If you’re interested in the idea of how the job guarantee can be used as a vehicle for a host of progressive social policies, there’s this 2001 C-FEPS working paper, “Life-Sustaining, Life-Enhancing Employment,” the section on pages 9-10. http://cas2.umkc.edu/econ/economics/faculty/Forstater/papers/CEFPS/Working%20Papers/WP15-Forstater.pdf …
What happens if private businesses just accelerate their automation and permanently decrease their demand for low and semi-skilled labor?
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The late Abba Lerner argued that without true full employment policy, efficiency is inefficient. With one, increased efficiency can result in more leisure time (shorter work week) and reallocation of labor to more important tasks (care of people and the planet)?
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