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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.
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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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· 4d ago
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