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Item: In early December, activists gathered outside the office of House Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi (California) in Washington; they were “demanding a Green New Deal to put millions of people to work making a climate-safe economy,” according to Common Dreams, a “progressive” news website. The site noted on December 5 that the activists were joined by “newly-elected [New York] Congressional representative and overnight media star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” who had “a resolution in hand to establish a Select Committee for a Green New Deal.”
The resolution calls for “a jobs guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one.”
As Common Dreams put it, the “federal jobs guarantee (JG) is a concept also known as ‘jobs for all’ and the federal government as ‘employer of last resort.’ It envisions a federal program somewhat like the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) that would provide funds for non-profit organizations, local governments, and other agencies serving the public to employ anyone who wants a job at a wage roughly comparable to the demands of the Fight for $15 campaign. According to columnist Jonathan Chait, the jobs guarantee plan ‘has materialized almost out of nowhere and ascended nearly to the status of Democratic Party doctrine.’”
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