October 22, 2024

European Trade Union Conference on the Job Guarantee

On October 7, European Trade Union Institute and European Trade Union Confederation met for a conference on the role of a Job Guarantee in upholding principles of sustainability, fair labor standards, and democracy. Presentations from Rania Antonopoulos, Lukas Lehner, and others discussed research and real world Job Guarantee pilot programs. From the conference page: “This […]

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April 22, 2024

France | The Right to Employment Consultation | June 6th Southern Territorial Conference in Lyon

La Concertation Droit à L’emploi – Conférence Territoriale Sud-Est French committed organizations for employment and solidarity, with their field experience, have chosen to collectively engage in a major national consultation for a law on the right to employment for all in 2024. This consultation brings together Territories for Zero Long term Unemployment, civic, anti-poverty, and […]

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April 22, 2024

European Social Fund | €23 million in new funding for JG pilot

The European Social Fund announced a call for innovative proposals on April 18th with an emphasis on the Job Guarantee. “The Commission has launched a call for proposals worth €23 million to help EU Member States develop new ways of tackling long-term unemployment and support people to find their way back into the labour market. […]

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March 20, 2024

New Report to European Commission | “Towards zero long-term unemployment in the EU: Job guarantees and other innovative approaches”

This March 6, 2024 report, prepared for the European Commission by Jörg Markowitsch & Ágota Scharle, details the trends in long-term unemployment in Europe and the innovative job guarantee programs that seek to address that perennial issue. Executive summary: “Long-term unemployment remains a persistent challenge in the European Union underlining the need for new innovative […]

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February 27, 2024

France | The Right to Employment Consultation | 14 National Networks Meet to Discuss Job Guarantee Law

La Concertation Droit à L’emploi In 2024, 14 French committed organizations for employment and solidarity, with their field experience, have chosen to collectively engage in a major national consultation for a law on the right to employment for all in 2024. This consultation brings together Territories for Zero Long term Unemployment, civic, anti-poverty, and disability […]

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February 1, 2024

Lalucq and Tcherneva | FEPS Special Report | A Job Guarantee for Europe

European Member of Parliament Aurore Lalucq and EDI Director Pavlina Tcherneva coauthored a special report in 2022 outlining a Job Guarantee for Europe. Elements of this report later appeared in the adopted EU Resolution on job creation and the just transition, which recognized the Job Guarantee as an essential policy toward that end. “How can […]

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January 18, 2024

Book Review | Bureau of Labor Statistics | Pavlina Tcherneva’s “The Case for a Job Guarantee”

Justin Holt, an economist in the Office of Publications and Special Studies, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, has written a review of Pavlina Tcherneva’s book “The Case for a Job Guarantee”. He writes that, “In The Case for a Job Guarantee, Tcherneva makes five main arguments. First, involuntary unemployment is commonplace and correlated with detriments […]

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December 14, 2023

Opinion | Rania Antonopoulos | Time for a job guarantee in Europe?

This December 14th piece, Rania Antonopoulos, a Levy Economics Institute senior scholar, writes that “Political and grassroots mobilisation around a job guarantee is gaining traction in Europe. Much can be learned from efforts at implementation in France, Austria, Ireland, and Luxembourg,” and that”A job guarantee could end long spells of joblessness for millions in the […]

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December 13, 2023

Call for Papers by December 22 | TZCLD Observatory | Study Day in Paris March 21-22 2024

The TZCLD Observatory (an organization for discussing research and results from the TZCLD employment program) is hosting a study day in Paris this coming March 21st and 22nd to discuss the trajectories of social innovations like the Zero Long Term Unemployment Areas in France. Proposals for papers (abstract between 10 and 15 lines with bibliography […]

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December 5, 2023

European Parliament resolution adopted | affirms role of job guarantee in “job creation – the just transition and impact investments”

The resolution text, adopted on November 23, 2023, affirms the role of public employment and a job guarantee in a just transition to an environmentally sustainable economy. Read the whole resolution at this link. See Recital G and Article 9: “G. whereas innovative direct employment initiatives have emerged at local level in different Member States, such […]

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December 4, 2023

Opinion | John Harvey | Self-Checkout Lane Not A Job-Killer If We Have A Job Program

In this Forbes Leadership Strategy piece, John T. Harvey writes about the job guarantee as an important policy tool and an escape from anxieties about technology replacing jobs that provide no clear social value. He writes: “We need to reject the deeply but unconsciously held assumption that jobs only come from the private sector, from […]

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December 4, 2023

Opinion | Pavlina Tcherneva | A Just Transition Needs a Job Guarantee

In this piece for Project Syndicate’s New Summits quarterly, Pavlina Tcherneva writes, “A job guarantee is necessary both for managing the disruptions wrought by global warming and for achieving a smooth, just transition to a low-carbon economy. And since the policy is also wildly popular, it should be a no-brainer for any politician who claims […]

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