What if the government guaranteed everyone a job?

Explain It to Me

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4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Vox's Dylan Matthews joins Sarah and Matt to break down the jobs guarantee debate and discuss research on a promising school desegregation initiative undermined by racist police practices. References and further reading Dylan's jobs guarantee explainer (with links to Stephanie Kelton's writing) Dylan's explainer of Sen. Cory Booker's jobs guarantee proposal (with links to Darrick Hamilton and Sandy Darity's writing) Bryce Covert's piece on the case for a jobs guarantee Gallup poll on workers getting a sense of identity from their jobs White paper on school integration "risks and benefits" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's like the Infinity War of research papers.
0:03.6	I haven't seen the movie.
0:04.7	I'm told it's about population, I think, so I'm excited.
0:07.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:20.3	Hello! Welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:23.9	I'm Matthew Glacius, joined today by Sarah Cliff,
0:26.6	and also remote live from New York City.
0:29.3	We have Dylan Matthews with us today because...
0:31.3	Hi, Dylan.
0:32.3	Hi.
0:32.9	Hey, we brought Dylan on because we want to talk about Jobs Guarantee,
0:36.1	which has been a burning up, wonky Twitter for the past week or two.
0:41.0	We've also got a blockbuster research paper with some real emotional highs and lows,
0:46.4	in my opinion.
0:47.2	It's going to be great.
0:47.9	It's going to be real good.
0:48.8	It's a, wow, it's kind of sad.
0:50.8	It's happy it's sad.
0:52.0	You'll cry, you'll die off, it'll be quite the research.
0:55.4	But before that, I want to get into the Jobs Guarantee.
0:58.4	Dylan sent some great stuff on this.
1:00.4	And I mean, I think an obvious question here is like,
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