Dean Baker speaks with historian Dr. William P. Jones about his book "The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement."
Despite important strides that the United States has made toward racial equality in the 60 years since the March on Washington, we have yet to address the persistent poverty and unemployment that turned Martin Luther King’s dream “into a nightmare.”
A federal program of subsidized employment would empower workers, strengthen communities, and move us toward a more equitable economy for everyone.
The deep and persistent racial wealth gap will not close without bold, structural reform
As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment?
The demand for genuine full employment broadens our imagination of what a federal government committed to caring for its people would look like.
The American Dream, should be one of equality and inclusion, with fundamental rights of all Americans guaranteed. Unionization as a seamless aspect of democratic society; universal collective bargaining and full employment an essential policy goal.
Forty years ago, shop workers in Britain developed the Lucas Plan to save jobs by converting arms manufacturing to industrial production. The struggle for economic conversion, and against the deskilling of work through computer-controlled technology remains relevant today in the search for solutions to the environmental crisis and the employment crisis.
Why “no job loss” is the wrong standard for setting the right wage floor.
If China had bombed thousands of U.S. factories over the past decade, America would respond. But the nation has done virtually nothing about thousands of factories closed by trade violations.
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