The United States government must create a full-employment economy.
- The U.S. government or state governments should take over many of the idle plants where ready workforces already exist and turn them to green production.
- The U.S. and state government should themselves invest in transformative green infrastructure, a new national transportation system, and a new energy system.
- We need government jobs programs to employ the unemployed in socially valuable work such as rebuilding our infrastructure and our aging cities, environmental conservation, and programs such as health and education.
- Full employment can be created by shortening the work week, 32 hours work for 40 hours pay with no loss in wages.
To see my thinking about some of these issues, see these articles:
