Job Assurance-The Job Guarantee Revisited

The employment problem needs to be divided into two parts: the problem as it applies to those ready, willing, able to work, and the problem as it applies to the handicapped. The job guarantee does not solve all problems. It does not solve the problems of the handicapped. However, it does give major relief in a major problem area without having adverse effects in other major problem areas such as those involving the handicapped. It seems common sense that the job guarantee, rather than income maintenance, or the negative income tax, or unemployment insurance, or the market-clear ability of the free market, ought to be the approach society uses to help the ready, willing, and able-to-work unemployed.