A federal jobs guarantee: The path to working-class power A federal jobs guarantee: The path to working-class power Raymond Banke / Senior Staff Illustrator By Alan Wu | February 3, 2021, 1:32 AM Now that the Democratic Party controls the executive and legislative branches of government and has taken responsibility for handling the unprecedented dual economic and public health crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no excuse for half measures. Leftists should take advantage of this precarious political moment and implement many social-democratic policies that would reduce the hardships Americans currently face. A federal jobs guarantee—where the government provides a job to every unemployed person seeking one—should be of the highest priority.