Job Guarantee creates a right to employment.
Murray and Forstater 12 [Michael J. Murray is Assistant Professor of Economics at Bemidji State University and a Research Associate with the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Mathew Forstater is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri– Kansas City, Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, and Research Associate with the Jerome Levy Economics Institute.; Employment Guarantee Schemes; “The Job Guarantee and Municipal Confederalism”; Palgrave Macmillan; 2012]//eleanor
JG is also the only real means of achieving the right to employment found in numerous governmental and other documents, such as the United Nations’ “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” The right to employment is also the most important means to many other economic and social rights, such as the rights to food, housing, and healthcare.