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able prosperity, and share the fruits of that 
prosperity equitably among all people; 
(D) to empower the working class by offer-
ing every worker, regardless of his or her back-
ground, capacity, or status, the opportunity to 
earn a fair, living wage, and to organize with 
fellow workers to advocate for common inter-
ests; 
(E) to ensure every person in the United 
States has genuine and meaningful opportuni-
ties for education, training, career advance-
ment, and choice with respect to workforce par-
ticipation; 
(F) to update and expand our under-
standing of socially necessary or useful work to 
include historically underrecognized and uncom-
pensated labor, including domestic and social 
care, ecological preservation, and cultural, sci-
entific, and creative work; 
(G) to promote justice and equity by stop-
ping current, preventing future, and repairing 
historic oppression and discrimination of indige-
nous peoples, communities of color, migrant 
communities, deindustrialized communities, de-
populated rural communities, the poor, low-in-
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come 
workers, 
women, 
the 
elderly, 
the 
unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth 
(referred to in this resolution as ‘‘frontline and 
vulnerable communities’’); 
(H) to complete the unfinished legacy of 
the civil rights movement and the New Deal, 
and meet the contemporary challenges posed by 
the climate crisis identified in the Green New 
Deal resolution; and 
(I) to meet the broader social and eco-
nomic challenges of the 21st century through 
appropriate public investment, socially coordi-
nated planning, and industrial cooperation; 
(2) the goals described in subparagraphs (A) 
through (I) of paragraph (1) (the ‘‘job guarantee 
goals’’) should be accomplished through an imme-
diate national mobilization— 
(A) to establish and honor a legally en-
forceable right to fair, dignified, and decently 
remunerated employment for all eligible individ-
uals living in the United States (hereafter the 
‘‘right to employment’’); 
(B) to establish and honor a bill of work-
ers’ rights, as a complement to the right to em-
ployment, that addresses issues related to work-
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er exploitation, discrimination, harassment, 
compensation, privacy, autonomy, choice of em-
ployment, working conditions, the right to orga-
nize and collectively bargain, suitable accommo-
dation for people with disabilities, protection 
and expansion of existing safety net programs, 
and other related concerns (hereafter the 
‘‘Workers’ Bill of Rights’’); 
(C) to establish, implement, and admin-
ister a comprehensive and diverse range of so-
cially necessary and useful public projects, re-
flective of community and regional needs, in-
cluding direct public job creation programs, and 
to 
support 
related 
education, 
training, 
credentialing, and career development pro-
grams, to ensure workers enjoy meaningful 
choice and appropriate opportunities for growth 
and advancement in their chosen area of em-
ployment (hereafter the ‘‘enabling programs’’); 
(D) to design and implement the right to 
employment, Workers’ Bill of Rights, and ena-
bling programs through transparent and inclu-
sive consultation, collaboration, and partnership 
with frontline and vulnerable communities, 
labor unions, worker cooperatives, civil society 
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groups, State and local governments, academia, 
and businesses; 
(E) to take ecological and equitable con-
cerns into consideration when designing and im-
plementing the right to employment, Workers’ 
Bill of Rights, and enabling programs, as well 
as any other related infrastructural and admin-
istrative institutions and procedures; 
(F) to take any and all necessary steps to 
ensure, wherever possible, that all people ben-
efit from the collective prosperity resulting from 
the establishment of the right to employment, 
Workers’ Bill of Rights, and enabling programs; 
and 
(G) to adequately and appropriately fund 
these efforts on a permanent, nondiscretionary 
basis, using Congress power of the purse, 
through a combination of Federal support to 
local and State governments, and various direct 
Federal grant and investment programs; 
(3) the national mobilization toward a Federal 
job guarantee would include projects that— 
(A) strengthen communities, retool our 
economy, achieve inclusive prosperity, and leave 
no one behind; 
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(B) address national priorities as well as 
those put forward by local governments and 
community organizations, with the participation 
of communities impacted by structural racism, 
oppression, and disinvestment in the selection 
of projects; 
(C) create net new jobs, without displacing 
existing public sector workers; and 
(D) prioritize racial equity and environ-
mental sustainability, including but not limited 
to ensuring a just transition for workers and 
frontline communities currently involved in 
unsustainable industries; 
(4) job guarantee workers would be employed in 
a range of ways, including but not limited to— 
(A) ensuring the delivery of high-quality, 
professional care to children, seniors, and oth-
ers in need of long-term support in family 
based, informal, and formal settings; 
(B) augmenting the staffing of public edu-
cation and early childhood learning, including 
Head Start and preschool; 
(C) strengthening public afterschool pro-
grams, libraries, and recreational programs to 
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