Through a program called the Economic Security Project (ESP), endorsed by such high profile figures as Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, and Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the first Clinton administration, the idea is being touted as a possible solution to the challenge of joblessness in the burgeoning era of redundancy of human labor.
This week, the International Labour Organisation said 600m new jobs must be created over the next decade to meet the "urgent challenge" of global joblessness.
Consider, for instance, how a task force comprising high-level officials from HUD, Treasury, Commerce, Education, Justice, and other departments could better address a region's inherently interconnected challenges of poverty, crime, joblessness, and educational underperformance than currently-existing structures.
But analysts are urging action, not aspirations, on South Africa's core challenges: a failing education system, staggering levels of joblessness and the widening chasm between rich and poor.
While those facts don't erase progress – Ohio's unemployment rate, for example, has dropped from 8.6 percent a year ago to 7 percent recently they do reflect the depth of joblessness from the Great Recession and the challenges that remain on the long road back to full employment.
While Mr. Amodei's victory was hardly a surprise, as the district has been held by a Republican since it was created in the 1980s, his defeat in the more Democratic leaning parts of the district demonstrated the challenge Democrats face in a country frustrated with high levels of joblessness and no near end in sight to economic woes.
Fear of joblessness has faded.
Markets had crashed many times before without decades of joblessness.
Workers' skills may atrophy as a result of joblessness.
Mohammed is living in a country that disguises its high rate of joblessness with chronic underemployment.
