A Federal Jobs Guarantee Is Costly & Misguided

With the midterm victories in the House of Representatives, Congressional Democrats are likely to begin a full-court press on their most recent policy initiative: a federal jobs guarantee program. Senators Corey Booker, D-N.J., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have advanced their own, and with the arrival in Congress of affirmed Democratic Socialists like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan additional support seems likely.