How to create jobs ...

In a country as rich as the United States of America—which already has the goal of full employment—creating jobs is a no-brainer. It's just that we don't have the political will to do it. We simply need to establish the policy that anyone old enough, willing, and physically and mentally able to work can have a job. Turn the employment offices into real employment offices, not unemployment offices.

Our nation has the resources and the needs to but everyone who qualifies—age, desire, ability—to work at a minimum living wage—providing basic food, clothing, shelter, education, and medical care for a family of four with two adults and two minor children.

First, we are rich enough as a nation from the wealth produced by our mental and physical labor to pay for real full employment. Second, we have more than enough work to do as an investment in our future to provide jobs for everyone meeting the age, desire, and ability qualifications. It would be just like a business investing to reap the future rewards of that investment.

Think of the social problems real full employment solves relative to welfare and prisons alone. In fact the cost benefit analysis should start with the costs of welfare, prison, and unemployment for those who would otherwise qualify for employment under a real full employment policy.