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A recent poll found that a staggering 78 percent of Americans are now in favor of a federal job guarantee. Although it has been largely erased from public memory, the job guarantee was a centerpiece not only of FDR’s second bill of economic rights, but also of the civil rights movement’s policy agenda. Coretta Scott King mobilized 1.2 million people to march for full employment in the late 1970s.
The ivory tower currently occupied by the old guard economists who oversaw economic policymaking by both the Clinton and Obama administrations is now under siege. The stakes could not be higher. This is what provoked economist Larry Summers to publish an op-ed in the Washington Post earlier this year in defense of his turf.
William A. Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. The focus of his work is on inequality based on race, class, and ethnicity. He has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and most recently Jacobin Magazine.
There could not be more explicit examples of our nation’s lack of progress on social justice issues than the current state of affairs in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City. The reaction to two grand juries deciding not to indict the police officers in the deaths of two unarmed men has been fueled by the same rage that led to the burning and looting of America’s urban centers after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
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