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The Job Guarantee: An Institutional Adjustment Toward an Inclusive Provisioning Process

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This inquiry seeks to establish that a job guarantee would animate the non-invidious re-creation of community, challenge the hierarchy which permeates social and economic relations, and facilitate an institutional adjustment toward a more inclusive provisioning process. In so doing, the analysis commences by revealing how the current institutional structure fails to provide a non-invidious provision of the material means of life.

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    Median income for historically disadvantaged minorities was calculated using data for Black/African American, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American populations.

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McCoy, B. (2018). The Job Guarantee: An Institutional Adjustment Toward an Inclusive Provisioning Process. In: Murray, M., Forstater, M. (eds) Full Employment and Social Justice. Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66376-0_11

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