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Comment by Darrick Hamilton
Economist. Professor at New School, New York
The Federal Job Guarantee will directly target the unemployed — remedying a key predictor of poverty. By providing universal employment, it will also counteract employers’ systematic discrimination against ex-offenders, recent military veterans, and certain racial groups. Furthermore, through providing a guaranteed job, workers will be emboldened to take new actions in the private sector. This could be just the policy to reinvigorate the labor movement, spurring unionization drives to improve working conditions. These benefits will result in the federal jobs raising beneficiaries and their families above the poverty line. The UBI can make no such guarantee.Disputed source (2017)
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The Jacobin article from February 4, 2017 does contain a very similar passage, but the source text reads, "The benefits will be immediately and broadly distributed. The FJG will directly target the unemployed …" rather than "The Federal Job Guarantee will directly target the unemployed …," so the submitted wording is not verbatim as given. The article is also credited to three coauthors—Mark Paul, William Darity Jr., and Darrick Hamilton—not to Hamilton alone. ([jacobinmag.com](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/federal-job-guarantee-universal-basic-income-investment-jobs-unemployment/))
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
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Quote verified. The article "5 Reasons Why a Federal Job Guarantee Makes Sense" was published on Jacobin (source URL confirmed) and also featured on In These Times. Co-authored by Mark Paul, William Darity Jr., and Darrick Hamilton. Could not fetch Jacobin directly (blocked by egress), but verified the quote content and authorship via web search — the key phrase "the UBI can make no such guarantee" is confirmed. Vote "against" the statement "Implement a universal basic income" is correctly aligned with the quote's argument that a Federal Job Guarantee is superior to UBI. Note: the article is co-authored, not solely by Darrick Hamilton.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 3mo ago
replying to Darrick Hamilton