MMT & The Job Guarantee

Start: 2021-06-22 19:00:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

This is a virtual event

With unemployment at levels not seen since the Great Depression, we need an FDR-style solution! The Federal Job Guarantee would provide work, at a living wage, to anyone who wants it. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the necessity for this kind of safety net, and a few years earlier, it was even core to AOC's Green New Deal.

On June 22nd Prof. Fadhel Kaboub will be joining us to explain the Federal Job Guarantee, the basics of Modern Monetary Theory, and the real limits to government spending. Understanding MMT aids the viability of the most popular Leftist policies. Many don't know that Bernie Sanders had a leading MMT economist, Stephanie Kelton, as economic advisor in his Earth-shaking 2016 run for president. MMT has been shrouded in controversy, especially in DSA, but we welcome all curiosity and skepticism. Professor Kaboub will be taking your questions, live!

Fadhel Kaboub is a Professor of economics at Denison and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He also held research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute (NY), the Economic Research Forum (Egypt), the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (MA), and the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (MO).