•HRES 1011 IH 
work of millions of women, parents, and familial care-
givers; 
Whereas economic prosperity in the United States has been 
highly unequal since its founding, largely falling on racial 
lines, with Black and indigenous Americans consistently 
earning less, owning less, and experiencing greater rates 
of economic precarity and poverty than White Americans; 
Whereas the United States has not increased the minimum 
wage for years, and maintains subminimum wage 
carveouts for incarcerated people, people with disabilities, 
and tipped workers; 
Whereas the United States presently exploits millions of un-
documented workers, by forcing them to work in sub-
standard conditions and below prevailing wages; 
Whereas the United States is presently experiencing a 
generational crisis, as millions of younger and older work-
ers face structural barriers to meaningful participation in 
the workforce; 
Whereas the United States is underinvesting in critical 
human and physical infrastructure, including care and 
the environment, as well as underinvesting in creative, 
cultural, scientific, and knowledge industries, including 
higher education, libraries, public art, and journalism; 
Whereas the United States is facing three overlapping and 
compounding crises, namely climate change, systemic rac-
ism, and extreme economic inequality, that together re-
quire a large-scale mobilization on the scale of World 
War II to address; 
Whereas low-wage workers, and Black, Latinx, Native Amer-
ican, and other communities of color, as well as women 
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and people with disabilities are experiencing sustained 
economic distress and face mounting debts; 
Whereas the United States is facing growing demand for care 
work and social services as the baby boomer generation 
retires from the workforce, and the senior population is 
expected to nearly double between 2018 and 2060; 
Whereas the COVID–19 pandemic revealed vast inequities in 
community conditions by race, ethnicity, and income in 
the United States as well as the need to strengthen com-
munity infrastructure and services in the communities 
most vulnerable to disasters; 
Whereas the COVID–19 pandemic demonstrated both the 
critical importance of individual job security and resilient 
production and distribution systems in the face of exter-
nal ecological and social crises; 
Whereas the COVID–19 pandemic, as well as the Silicon Val-
ley Bank crisis, demonstrated that the United States 
Government is not financially constrained in its ability to 
respond to economic crises, and underscored the unique 
and broad capacity of Federal deficit spending and public 
investment to counteract and reduce the disruptive im-
pact of economic shocks and recessions; 
Whereas the historically low rates of unemployment during 
the recent economic recovery have failed to adequately 
provide sufficient or quality employment for people who 
face discrimination, including but not exclusively based 
on race, gender identity and expression, past record of 
criminal legal system involvement, and areas where eco-
nomic investment is inadequate; 
Whereas the historically low rates of unemployment during 
the recent economic recovery have failed to employ people 
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in jobs that prioritize social needs, such as mitigating cli-
mate change and addressing the care crisis, beyond the 
level that private investors and business owners deter-
mine will be sufficiently profitable for them; 
Whereas the United States is facing new workforce challenges 
relating to privacy, worker autonomy, data gathering and 
surveillance, and automation, as a result of new tech-
nologies and the rapidly changing nature of industry, and 
these challenges have been accelerated by the COVID–19 
pandemic; 
Whereas the United States regularly suffers from high levels 
of 
underemployment, 
persistent 
joblessness 
among 
marginalized populations, and the growth of primarily 
low-quality jobs, resulting in— 
(1) the loss of millions of hours of potential output, 
as well as deterioration of skills and productive capacity; 
(2) lower community living standards, increased lev-
els of working poverty and homelessness, and higher 
rates of individual and family suffering, including phys-
ical and mental health problems; 
(3) higher rates of workplace discrimination, harass-
ment, and a ‘‘last hired, first fired’’ approach that dis-
proportionately affects vulnerable populations, including 
Black workers, women, LGTBQIA workers, workers with 
disabilities, formerly incarcerated workers, and young 
and elderly workers; 
(4) an effective minimum wage of zero for those who 
cannot obtain employment; and 
(5) an increasing fraction of the workforce forced to 
undertake multiple jobs, or engage in dangerous work 
with insufficient labor protections; 
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Whereas reliance on private investment alone has never his-
torically succeeded in establishing a true full employment 
economy, in which every individual wishing to undertake 
paid work can do so; 
Whereas reliance on education, skill development, job train-
ing, and other ‘‘indirect’’ policies alone have never his-
torically succeeded in establishing a true full employment 
economy, in which every individual wishing to undertake 
paid work can do so; 
Whereas untargeted, demand-increasing stimulus alone has 
never historically succeeded in establishing a true full em-
ployment economy, in which every individual wishing to 
undertake paid work can do so; 
Whereas the Federal Government has the unique legal and fi-
nancial capacity, relative to the local and State govern-
ments and the private sector, to credibly commit to fund-
ing the programs and institutions necessary to establish 
a true full employment economy, in which every indi-
vidual wishing to undertake paid work can do so; 
Whereas the Federal Reserve, on its own, has never histori-
cally succeeded in establishing a true full employment 
economy, in which every individual wishing to undertake 
paid work can do so, and by its own admission, lacks the 
necessary tools and capacity to do so; 
Whereas Congress and the Department of the Treasury have 
a demonstrated track record of successfully funding and 
administering direct job creation programs, including the 
Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps during the New Deal, which created over 
6,000,000 jobs in less than a year; 
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Whereas Congress and the Treasury have a demonstrated 
track record of mass-scale mobilization of the economy, 
including during World War II, when the United States 
maintained an average unemployment rate of under 2 
percent, and successfully doubled real output of the en-
tire economy in under 6 years in the face of an unprece-
dented existential threat; and 
Whereas President Biden has taken Executive action on the 
creation of a Civilian Climate Corps Initiative, in need of 
dedicated, permanent funding on a nondiscretionary 
basis, to mobilize the next generation of conservation and 
resilience workers and maximize the creation of accessible 
training opportunities and good jobs: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to 
create a Federal job guarantee— 
(A) to finally eliminate the moral and eco-
nomic scourge of involuntary unemployment; 
(B) to establish a true full employment so-
ciety, in which anyone who wants to undertake 
paid work in the service of the community and 
the environment has ample opportunities to do 
so; 
(C) to collectively achieve the greatest pos-
sible level of socially and ecologically sustain-
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