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Independently, jobs provided by the plan are mandated to be temporary – Wrecks efficacy.

King 20 – Assistant Professor in Labour Studies, U of Manitoba

Adam D.K. King, UBI And Job Guarantees Aren’t The Leftist Solutions We Need, 2020, https://www.readthemaple.com/ubi-and-job-guarantees-arent-the-leftist-solutions-we-need/

The green jobs necessary for a just transition, however, will involve considerable skill and training. These need to be secure, adequately paid public sector jobs. A job guarantee, according to its principal policy architects, is also by definition a temporary employment program. JG jobs, as economics professor L. Randall Wray argues, would grow and contract according to the performance of the private sector labour market. A green transition needs good public sector employment, not temporary minimum wage workfare.

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