American Needs More Government Jobs Programs

According to Livermore (2008), those who are actively looking for work but are not currently contracted arrangements are considered to be unemployed. Since the economic recession in 2007, unemployment has become a sustainable issue in the United States. Many companies have dismissed thousands of employees on account of their insolvency. As of September 2011, the unemployment rate was the highest in the south and the west. Nevada's unemployment rate was the highest at 13.4% and California's unemployment rate was 12.1% (Cooper, 2011).

More and more people are eliminated. We need a new social contract, a universal basic income. Basic revenue is a simple plan and the government provides enough cash to each American to meet their basic needs. This is a subsidy to all people irrespective of whether they are doing work and unconditionally restricts expenditure. This is an opportunity for all of us to benefit from an amazing progress in productivity and wealth in the past 100 years. Instead, based on missing work, we can choose to work based on what is important to us. Basic income gives us the opportunity to think about how we spend the best time and contribute to the world we live in.

As I wrote in the past, the more I understand these two projects, the more I tend to favor more basic income. Of course, there are many positive attributes in the guaranteed employment plan, but I am deeply skeptical about the so-called "necessity" of bringing dignity to my life. For me, this elitist argument makes it easy for most Americans to lose their job without doing what they dream of.

Americans give the government a tough performance evaluation. Overwhelming majority of citizens stated that the government's efforts in managing the plan and providing services are fair or poor (74%). If a project is operated by the government, it is usually inefficient and wasteful (64%) and many people agree. These low scores are not important when people are asked about the federal mission. For example, 52% of Americans say the government only provides fair work for the elderly, 20% think that effort is poor