Majora Carter

Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Our Most ‘Expensive’ Citizens Can Become Our Climate Change Heroes

In the wake of the highest unemployment rate in 25 years, the Roosevelt Institute asked historians, economists and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. Majora Carter argues for a massive scale, green-collar-job creation effort to revitalize our cities.

People with jobs are better off than people without jobs. But it turns out that people with jobs are even better off if other people are fully employed too - and l am not referring to the alleged “benefits” of increased consumer activity.

One of…