An 'Employment of Last Resort' Proposal for Greece
Nov 25, 2013
Rania Antonopoulos, Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, describes her proposal for an “Employer of Last Resort” program in Greece. Part of the MMx seminar “The Disparate Impact of Unemployment: Macroeconomic Policy as a Tool for Race, Gender, and Age Discrimination” hosted by the Modern Money Network.
A government job guarantee is a proposed program where the government would provide a job with a basic wage and benefits package to anyone willing and ready to work.
