IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1011 
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Federal job 
guarantee. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 14, 2024 
Ms. PRESSLEY submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create 
a Federal job guarantee. 
Whereas, 75 years ago, Article 23 of the Universal Declara-
tion of Human Rights set forth the economic right to em-
ployment, recognizing that ‘‘everyone has the right to 
work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable 
conditions of work and to protection against unemploy-
ment’’; 
Whereas a job guarantee was a central demand and unfin-
ished legacy of the civil rights movement, such that— 
(1) at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and 
Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr., joined A. Philip Ran-
dolph and Bayard Rustin in demanding a job guarantee; 
(2) in the subsequent decade, Coretta Scott King led 
a grassroots movement to enact a job guarantee; 
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(3) these leaders all built on and advanced the work 
of earlier pioneers like Sadie T.M. Alexander, the Na-
tion’s first Black economist, who advocated a job guar-
antee to address racial discrimination against Black 
workers, while improving labor market conditions for all 
workers in the 1940s; and 
(4) throughout the past 100 years, activists and in-
tellectuals like Ella Baker and the Mississippi Freedom 
Democratic Party have all seen a Federal job guarantee 
as a key element of racial justice; 
Whereas the right to a ‘‘useful and remunerative’’ job was 
the first and most fundamental right in President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt’s proposed Economic Bill of Rights and 
is a core plank of the Green New Deal movement and the 
People’s Justice Guarantee; 
Whereas a job guarantee is essential to any effort to close the 
racial and gender income and wealth gap; 
Whereas the United States has, on multiple occasions, includ-
ing from 1945 to 1946, 1977 to 1978, and more recently, 
introduced legislation in an attempt to establish a full 
employment economy; 
Whereas the commitment to full employment has been em-
braced by Congress and is part of the statutory mandate 
of the Federal Reserve System; 
Whereas the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme 
Poverty and Human Rights recommended the enactment 
of a job guarantee as a ‘‘powerful tool’’ in the global 
fight against poverty and a way to contribute to a ‘‘just 
transition’’ toward a decarbonized economy in a 2023 re-
port to the UN Human Rights Council; 
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Whereas a job guarantee has been recognized by key inter-
national allies as an important part of any green transi-
tion, including the European Union; 
Whereas the United States has experienced decades of in-
creasing inequality, racial economic exclusion and in-
equity, stagnant wages, declining union membership, and 
deteriorating workplace protections and conditions; 
Whereas the United States has experienced decades of chron-
ic underinvestment in its communities, workforce, infra-
structure, public services, agricultural and industrial 
heartland, and natural environment; 
Whereas the United States has, for decades, perpetuated a 
punitive, racist, ineffective criminal legal system that has 
systematically excluded millions of individuals from the 
workforce, failed to effectively promote reentry for pre-
viously incarcerated individuals, and forced incarcerated 
individuals to work in oppressive and exploitative condi-
tions for effectively no pay; 
Whereas the United States is experiencing a long-term eco-
nomic crisis in which many workers are overworked, un-
derpaid, and experience job and economic insecurity, with 
at least 100,000,000 Americans living in or near poverty, 
and 24 percent of full-time workers earning less than $15 
an hour according to the National Equity Atlas; 
Whereas even at the peak of a business cycle, with a rel-
atively low unemployment rate, many workers remain job 
insecure, earn insufficient income, and experience un- 
and underemployment; 
Whereas the United States presently fails to recognize, sup-
port, or adequately remunerate the household and care 
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