Job Guarantee Antecedents

• New Deal programs of direct federal employment

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Post-war governments more oriented toward full-employment

• But commitment waned from 1960s onward

  • "Structurally unemployed": attribute unemployment to social defects of the unemployed ...

    • ... rather than shortcomings of government policy

  • "War on Poverty" and emphasis on job training rather than jobs for all