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The #JobGuarantee is more than a price stabilizing tool, or a "buffer stock of labor" to keep ready for private sector employers. It IS those things, but more importantly it's a life changing policy that will eliminate involuntary unemployment. And for me it's personal.. 1/
My son Jared turns 7 in a few weeks. He was 3 when he was diagnosed with autism. The official diagnosis wasn't a surprise to me, it was almost like diagnosing my daughter with curly hair. We knew. I WAS surprised however when I heard of the unemployment #'s for autistic adults 2/
"There will be 500,000 adults on the autism spectrum aging into adulthood over the next 10 years. Yet a whopping 85% of college grads affected by autism are unemployed, compared to the national unemployment rate of 4.5%" (2017) 3/
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Almost 20 yrs ago (1999), Randy Wray, @mattybram, @ptcherneva and I brought the Center for Full Employment & Price Stability to #UMKC. For two decades, we hosted conferences, advised policmakers, and published volumes of research on the #JobGuarantee.
Our doctoral program produced dozens of students who wrote their dissertations on some aspect of the #JobGuarantee. People like @FadhelKaboub now run their own Institutes with the #JG at the core.
Point is, we’ve been at this a for a very long time. Sometimes it felt like a losing battle. But here we are today with #JG in the headlines every day.
