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WHAT ARE THE KEY FEATURES OF THE JOB GUARANTEE?
• Permanent but voluntary: The program is permanent. It offers employment opportunities in the community to perform socially useful work.
• A living wage: It offers a wage-benefit package, establishing a floor to living incomes. The wage in this proposal is $15 per hour plus benefits.
• Local: The program takes the contract to the worker, creating jobs where the unemployed live.
• Targeted: By design, the program creates the greatest number of jobs in communities with the greatest number of unemployed people, who are facing multiple other social deprivations.
• Federally funded, locally administered: Since it is an employment safety net, and for financial sustainability reasons, the program is funded by the federal government, but primarily administered by local and municipal governments, nonprofits and/or social enterprises, and cooperatives.
• An “add on” program: This is a new program that serves as an option to (but does not displace) existing programs. For example, people would have a choice between continuing to receive unemployment insurance (UI) or enrolling in the program. If they choose the former but still have trouble finding conventional private or public sector work once UI benefits have been exhausted, they will still have the option of enrolling in the JG program.
• Not a workfare program: The program does not require people to work for their existing benefits (e.g., Medicare, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP], Head Start, etc.).
• Community Jobs Banks: The program serves as a repository of various employment opportunities. It does not displace existing public sector work. It is authorized as a separate program under the Department of Labor (DOL) and provides employment opportunities on standby.
• A safety net and a transitional jobs program: As a safety net, it gives opportunities to anyone who wishes to work at the base wage-benefit package, irrespective of their labor market status or situation. As a transitional program, it serves as a stepping stone to paid work—from unemployment to employment or from JG employment to other forms of private, public, and nonprofit employment.
• Fits JG jobs to people: It meets people where they are in terms of ability. It provides suitable, useful work opportunities, designed to be appropriate for the education or skill level of the applicant.
• Provides working day options: The JG offers part-time and flexible work arrangements, as needed, for caregivers, students, etc.
• Jobs for all: The program does not exclude any individual or group of people who want to work. The design must be sensitive to the needs of special groups such as veterans, atrisk youth, ex-convicts, or people with disabilities.
• Invests in people: It offers training, education, and apprenticeship opportunities.
• Invests in communities: The JG aims to match unfilled community needs with unemployed or underemployed people who could work to meet them.
• Invests in the public good: It separates the offer of employment from the profitability of employment. Projects are created to serve community needs, rather than prioritizing whether the projects are deemed “profitable” in the narrow sense.
• Invests in the environment: The program focuses on addressing environmental concerns
• Permanent but voluntary: The program is permanent. It offers employment opportunities in the community to perform socially useful work.
• A living wage: It offers a wage-benefit package, establishing a floor to living incomes. The wage in this proposal is $15 per hour plus benefits.
• Local: The program takes the contract to the worker, creating jobs where the unemployed live.
• Targeted: By design, the program creates the greatest number of jobs in communities with the greatest number of unemployed people, who are facing multiple other social deprivations.
• Federally funded, locally administered: Since it is an employment safety net, and for financial sustainability reasons, the program is funded by the federal government, but primarily administered by local and municipal governments, nonprofits and/or social enterprises, and cooperatives.
• An “add on” program: This is a new program that serves as an option to (but does not displace) existing programs. For example, people would have a choice between continuing to receive unemployment insurance (UI) or enrolling in the program. If they choose the former but still have trouble finding conventional private or public sector work once UI benefits have been exhausted, they will still have the option of enrolling in the JG program.
• Not a workfare program: The program does not require people to work for their existing benefits (e.g., Medicare, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP], Head Start, etc.).
• Community Jobs Banks: The program serves as a repository of various employment opportunities. It does not displace existing public sector work. It is authorized as a separate program under the Department of Labor (DOL) and provides employment opportunities on standby.
• A safety net and a transitional jobs program: As a safety net, it gives opportunities to anyone who wishes to work at the base wage-benefit package, irrespective of their labor market status or situation. As a transitional program, it serves as a stepping stone to paid work—from unemployment to employment or from JG employment to other forms of private, public, and nonprofit employment.
• Fits JG jobs to people: It meets people where they are in terms of ability. It provides suitable, useful work opportunities, designed to be appropriate for the education or skill level of the applicant.
• Provides working day options: The JG offers part-time and flexible work arrangements, as needed, for caregivers, students, etc.
• Jobs for all: The program does not exclude any individual or group of people who want to work. The design must be sensitive to the needs of special groups such as veterans, atrisk youth, ex-convicts, or people with disabilities.
• Invests in people: It offers training, education, and apprenticeship opportunities.
• Invests in communities: The JG aims to match unfilled community needs with unemployed or underemployed people who could work to meet them.
• Invests in the public good: It separates the offer of employment from the profitability of employment. Projects are created to serve community needs, rather than prioritizing whether the projects are deemed “profitable” in the narrow sense.
• Invests in the environment: The program focuses on addressing environmental concerns
