Is Full Employment the Government’s Job? – PS On Point

 [View this message in a web browser]( | [Forward to a friend]( [PS On Point]( PS OnPoint Weekly Newsletter The debate over government job-guarantee programs is partly one of economic theory. But according to Robert Skidelsky, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University and biographer of John Maynard Keynes, the main issue is politics: any government that cannot protect citizens from a want of work should be cast out. [Read more](. LONG READ FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2019 [The Case for a Guaranteed Job]( The Case for a Guaranteed Job By Robert Skidelsky A government's job is to protect its people from misfortune, in particular want of work, and one that abandons this duty of care to the market deserves to be cast out. This is the best argument for giving a government job-guarantee program a fair trial. [Read More]( [Rich. Rewarding. Redefined. ]( THE BIG PICTURE The Big Picture brings together 4-5 Project Syndicate commentaries on topics in the news - and on the deeper issues driving the news. [What Is Inequality?]( What Is Inequality? The rubric of inequality contains multitudes, from disparities in material means to those affecting access to opportunities and outcomes both between and within countries. Given that all inequalities were not created equal, the challenge for egalitarians is to decide which ones really matter. [Read More]( PREVIOUSLY IN PS ON POINT [The Myth of Welfare Dependency]( The Myth of Welfare Dependency By Hanna Rema In most countries, rich and poor people alike worry that social programs for low-income households end up weakening work incentives and create an underclass of indigents. In fact, recent research suggests just the opposite: the longer families receive stable and predictable support, the better they and their children do. [Read More]( PS 25 [Turning Point at Chernobyl]( Turning Point at Chernobyl April 14, 2006 | By Mikhail Gorbachev If the Chernobyl disaster held one lesson, Mikhail Gorbachev wrote in 2006 on the catastrophe's 20th anniversary, it was that nuclear devastation – whether caused by an accident or the deployment of a weapon – is far more horrifying than the world seemed to realize. Yet countries around the world continue to cling to nuclear technology. [Read More]( This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from this list](.