Pressley Calls for a Federal Job Guarantee for All Americans
- She says public works programs can ease pandemic economic pain
- Massachusetts Democrat urges Biden to make jobs plan a policy
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Democratic Representative Ayanna Pressley is proposing that the federal government guarantee every American a job as millions are still grappling with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pressley on Thursday will introduce a resolution in the U.S. House that calls on the government to make having a job a legal right and to create public works programs as a means to bring that about.