Note: See also Isaiah Poole’s We Need An Unemployed People’s
Campaign Why don’t we all have a right to a job? Who is our
country and our economy for? The first three words of our
Constitution provide us with a hint: “We, the People.” There are
millions of people out of work and millions of jobs that need
doing. The jobs that need doing pay for themselves because they
make our economy more competitive, like modernizing our
infrastructure and improving the energy efficiency of buildings.
Millions Of People Out Of Work Here is The Chart (from
Calculated Risk.) The following two charts are from this
analysis. They are unemployed over 26 weeks and part time for
economic reasons (underemployed) Millions Of Jobs That Need
Doing Since the Reagan-era tax cuts caused us to defer
maintaining out infrastructure we have fallen behind much of the
world in economic competitiveness. Modernizing ports, roads,
rail, airports, Internet, wireless, water, sewer, schools…
Retrofitting buildings and homes to be energy efficient wou