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#148 Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory

The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly

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Will the Job Guarantee Lift the Minimum Wage?

The job guarantee helps with that mission, right? But a robust public sector is critical. I think the bidding up of wages is what currently happens. And it's always for people who have jobs and have good stable jobs. The job guarantee provides employment where it's missing. So we do have the concrete mechanism to kind of bring people who find themselves without work.

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