‘We Need A Jobs Guarantee Programme To Support Our Most Vulnerable Workers’

Unemployment is predicted to reach record highs in the UK as the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic begins to show. But according to one economist, it doesn’t necessarily have to be this way. Pavlina Tcherneva, director of the Economics program at Bard College, New York, believes a federal jobs programme which guarantees work for anyone who applies could significantly help during moments of financial crisis.