Anybody that can read - and many who can't - can be put to work doing something useful. It's not that hard to organize.
Right now, you have people being laid off - which means they knew how to do something. Schools could absorb a lot of labor. Set 20 as the maximum number of children that can be supervised by an unassisted adult. Teachers with more than 20 students get teacher aides. Health care could absorb a lot too: subsidize 50% of the wages of home health care workers. child care, adult day care. subsidize 50%. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Max B. Sawicky<[email protected]> wrote: > I thought somebody might bring that up. > Really, how many of the unemployed are writers and theater workers? > > Most anybody can make some kind of public contribution commensurate > with > their talents. The problem is organizing that on a mass scale. It's > not > like drafting an army to dig ditches. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Naiman > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:16 PM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Obama commits to full employment > > The WPA wasn't just about employing the low-skilled. There was the > Writers' Project, the Theater Project, etc. Unemployment can be soaked > up in different sections of the labor force. Are there not unmet needs > that skilled workers from the IT sector could meet? > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Max Sawicky<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Re: WPA, another note. This is a good way of scooping up the >> immiserated low-wage labor market. But unemployment is pervasive at >> multiple wage levels. It ain't the 30s with masses of starving >> low-skilled workers and rural folks. Can we envision skilled > workers >> from the IT sector or women retail workers hunkering down in public >> works projects? I can't. > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
