Baldwin, Fla., opens town-run grocery store after becoming a food desert. The Baldwin Market is indistinguishable from any other small-town grocery store, but all of its eight employees are on the municipal payroll. Workers from the town’s maintenance department take breaks from cutting grass to help unload deliveries, and residents have taken … Continue reading When a deep red town’s only grocery closed, city hall opened its own store. Just don’t call it ‘socialism.’

Growing numbers of Democrats support the idea of guaranteeing decent jobs to all Americans. Here’s how they say it would work. And the key to all this: …all of these plans say … Continue reading What Is A Federal Jobs Guarantee?

Regardless of the practicalities of a jobs guarantee plan, the discussion belies an uncomfortable truth — that’s there a major Washington institution that has as part of its congressional mandate guaranteeing that … Continue reading The Fed wants millions of people out of work, it’s part of their mandate.

Most of the reservations about this policy fit into one of three categories: Cost, implementation, and human capital. We’ll address them one by one, from least defensible to most: Interesting read from … Continue reading Human capital and the jobs guarantee – Financial Times

The idea is simple: the government guarantees a job with livable wages and benefits to anyone who wants one It’s been done before and it works. Source: Why Democrats should support a government-backed jobs guarantee | Ross Barkan | Opinion | The Guardian Continue reading Why Democrats should support a government-backed jobs guarantee