A jobs guarantee is inseparable from MMT.
Larry Wray 19, Professor of Economics at the Bard College,3/12/2019, "MMT Responds to Brad DeLong’s Challenge," https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/03/mmt-responds-to-brad-delongs-challenge.html
Notably missing was reference to functional finance. In fact, the core of MMT was developed before Lerner was brought into it (by Mat Forstater and Stephanie Kelton in the late 1990s). Most importantly, we ALREADY had our full employment policy: the Job Guarantee (also called employer of last resort, public service employment and buffer stock employment). It was from the very beginning THE central stabilizing component of MMT. Many of our neoliberal critics (who HATE full employment) have always tried to separate the JG from MMT. Josh follows in that tradition. We have always insisted that the JG is inseparable from MMT.