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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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Is the Job Guarantee for the Unemployed?

The job guarantee can provide us with infrastructure of employment in the care sector. It will be targeted at the bottom of the income distribution, but we very much believe that this is socially productive. I challenge the notion of unproductive because what is unproductive? If you plant a tree, we clean up like a lake, we like, you know, private sector would call it not productive,. But for us, it is incredibly social useful.

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