A Government Job Guarantee in a Wellbeing Economy
A Government Job Guarantee must be a central economic policy in a wellbeing economy and should be central to the next independence campaign. William Thomson's introduction to a Government Job Guarantee. Although the Job Guarantee is a macroeconomic policy designed to stabilise the economy, it has other appealing features. A job guarantee is a priority if we are to tackle the multiple crises we face today. These include inequality, the continual blight of poverty, and the ecological damage we have wrought on the earth. The job guarantee scheme embeds the government as the employer of last resort. The government [...]