“Good Jobs for Americans who Help Americans”

• The causes of jobs dwindling are: globalization, deregulation, and weaker worker protections, such as minimum-wage laws and government defense of the right to unionize.
• However, the service sector has exploded as a source for jobs.
• Kuttner proposes a national policy to make every human-service job a good job-one that pays living wage with good benefits, includes training, advancement, and professional status.
• The Government has the leverage to set standards because it pays upward of half of all health-care costs.
• A pressing need is public subsidy to help low-wage human-service workers ascend career ladders.
• Someone working for $7 an hour, often have family responsibilities, having shortage of time and money.
• A rough estimate of upgrading all low-wage human-service work into decent professional career paths is about $150 billion a year.