The Benefits of Full Employment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Benefits of Full Employment write by Jared Bernstein. This book was released on 2003. The Benefits of Full Employment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Back to Full Employment
Back to Full Employment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Back to Full Employment write by Robert Pollin. This book was released on 2012. Back to Full Employment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States needs to try to implement full employment and how it can help the economy.
Getting Back to Full Employment
Getting Back to Full Employment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Getting Back to Full Employment write by Dean Baker. This book was released on 2013. Getting Back to Full Employment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While most people intuitively know that low unemployment is important to job seekers, they may not realize that high levels of employment actually would make an enormous difference in the lives of large segments of the workforce who already have jobs. Particularly in an era of historically high wage and income inequality, many in the workforce depend on full employment labor markets, and the bargaining power it provides, to secure a fair share of the economy's growth. For the bottom third or even half of the wage distribution, high levels of employment are a necessary condition for improving wages, higher incomes, and better working conditions. This book is a follow-up to a book written a decade ago by the authors, The Benefits of Full Employment (Economic Policy Institute, 2003). It builds on the evidence presented in that book, showing that real wage growth for workers in the bottom half of the income scale is highly dependent on the overall rate of unemployment. In the late 1990s, when the United States saw its first sustained period of low unemployment in more than a quarter century, workers at the middle and bottom of the wage distribution were able to secure substantial gains in real wages. When unemployment rose in the 2001 recession, and again following the collapse of the housing bubble, most workers no longer had the bargaining power to share in the benefits of growth. The book also documents another critical yet often overlooked side effect of full employment: improved fiscal conditions (without mindless budget policies like the current sequestration). Finally, in this volume, unlike the earlier one, the authors present a broad set of policies designed to boost growth and get the unemployment rate down to a level where far more workers have a fighting chance of getting ahead.
No More Work
No More Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No More Work write by James Livingston. This book was released on 2016-10-28. No More Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance--in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem--why it is that both liberals and conservatives announce that "full employment" is their goal when job creation is no longer a feasible solution for any problem, moral or economic. The result is a witty, stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labor, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world--and showing us that we can afford to leave that world behind.
The Case for a Job Guarantee
The Case for a Job Guarantee - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Case for a Job Guarantee write by Pavlina R. Tcherneva. This book was released on 2020-06-05. The Case for a Job Guarantee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false. In this book, leading expert Pavlina R. Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed. This is the aim of the Job Guarantee proposal: to provide a voluntary employment opportunity in public service to anyone who needs it. Tcherneva enumerates the many advantages of the Job Guarantee over the status quo and proposes a blueprint for its implementation within the wider context of the need for a Green New Deal. This compact primer is the ultimate guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today. It is essential reading for all citizens and activists who are passionate about social justice and building a fairer economy.
