It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people". Many years earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that "the right to a useful and remunerative job" should be enshrined in a second, economic Bill of Rights (Roosevelt 1944).
I know that from experience: I worked as a corporate lawyer for four years, and am much happier in my significantly less remunerative job as a freelance writer.
A wide range of less risky and more remunerative job opportunities, inside and outside music, makes the chancy career in opera look less atractive.
He thought more about how to pay for his son's food and diapers while avoiding the repossession of his Grand Am, which he'd bought before he lost a job as a supervisor at Coca-Cola, and which was crucial to keeping his new, less remunerative job, "building houses in the middle of nowhere".
From the little time we had so far spent with these men it was clear they teemed with a blinking, indulgent patience likely borne of their awareness of how lucky they were to have relatively remunerative jobs in a nation with a per capita income equal to the cost of two Arc'Teryx backpacks.
Yet, even if stimulating competition would achieve greater economic productivity, and even if this would, by some miraculous mechanism, yield a more egalitarian distribution of economic resources (presumably through the provision of more remunerative jobs), these welcome material benefits are not all that is needed.
It is a moral imperative that our government do something to improve access to health care, remunerative jobs, and educational opportunities, and President Obama needs to make it his imperative to ensure Congress does just that.
Back then, "I was willing to take remunerative jobs that I wasn't passionate about," he said.
Such a policy would carry out President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal, in the 1944 State of the Union address, to assure to all the right to useful and remunerative jobs.
Although the economy is starting to create new and often highly remunerative jobs, they are out of reach to those who cannot move.An unprecedented extension of jobless benefits may also be to blame.
According to Human Rights Watch, workers are sometimes led by agents to believe that they will work as waiters or hotel employees in Abu Dhabi, only to learn on arrival that they will have far less remunerative jobs, in construction.
