Just What Is a Job Guarantee?

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Jacobin - 5/13/2018 - Matt Bruenig - I don’t want to keep writing about the job guarantee (JG), but I feel like I owe a response to Max Sawicky’s piece on the subject. Before getting into his article, it is helpful to again restate my main criticism of the idea, the one I have been making for three years now (over and over and over and over). My main criticism is that the kinds of jobs that are appropriate for the program are not very good jobs and that advocates consistently claim that they will be able to do jobs that they can’t actually do. Read more @ https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/05/full ... ie-bruenig