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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
“By far the most important initiative and best opportunity for reform in the world ever”
In his book The Sane Society, Erich Fromm, the accomplished psychologist, sociologist and author provides his prescription for a sane society which includes:
one in which all aspects of life are interrelated and dedicated to the
advancement of human life rather than material production
DRAFT
UN SDG Target 8.5 & Target Action Plan #1
TAP 1. Put everyone including the under-employed and unemployed, refugees, migrants, prisoners, young people and persons with disabilities, etc., to work at decent work and living income, in particular, collaborating and working together implementing the SDG TAPs
(Updated February 16, 2021)
This plan outline what must be done to achieve full and productive employment for all at meaningful, decent work at living-wages, primarily implementing the UN SDGs, in particular:
1.1.1 TAP41 Eradicate all poverty: Ensure everyone has all the necessities of life, a guaranteed living income and are self-sufficient;
1.1.2 TAP25 Limit global warming since1880 to as much below 1.5 degrees Celsius as possible and mitigate the adverse, in particular, harsh climate change effects; and,
1.1.3 Other urgent UN SDG Target Actions
Ultimately, individuals will be able to choose the type work they do, its location and time. Also, mainly sedentary jobs should include some physical labor and mainly physical jobs should include some sedentary work such as typing, filing, educating and training or being educated and trained.
This will jumpstart the economy, end the recession and avoid a massive worldwide depression.
The current “Great Recession” is still by far the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930's.
There is a tremendous amount of work that must be done and the funds are available to do this work.
The Problem of the Twentieth Century: Poverty in the Midst of Plenty explains how Beecher "businessmen" have kept unemployment, prices, profits and executive salaries high by keeping goods scarce, curtailing production, paying low wages and laying off employees. This keeps many in poverty and debt and provides evermore unemployed workers willing to work for even lower wages.
We must convince these businessmen that to have customers they must pay living wages. Until they do this, the government must hire a massive number of people to do the needed work and prevent the current “Great Recession” from becoming much worse than the “Great Depression” of the 1930's.
The federal government is required by law to create jobs and have full employment by the Federal Reserve Act, international law and the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act (Humphrey-Hawkins), signed into law in 1978, is “An Act to translate into practical reality the right of all Americans who are able, willing, and seeking to work to full opportunity for useful paid employment at fair rates of compensation” (From the Act’s long title).
The Act has four ultimate goals: full employment, growth in production, price stability and balance of trade and budget and states that the federal government will rely primarily on private enterprise to achieve the four goals. The Act expressly provides for measures to create temporary government jobs to reduce unemployment in particular if private enterprise appears not to be meeting these goals. After 38 years private enterprise in particular large corporation have not met these goals and .
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1.4.6 Require companies to return outsourced jobs to the U.S.
U.S. Help Put the rest of the World to Work
The purpose of this plan is get everyone employed he poor, jobs helping to provide the needs and necessities of life to the poor and helping the poor become self sufficient.
1.3 Objectives. The objectives of this plan include to outline what must be done as rapidly as practical to:
1.3.1 Implement Target 8.5 As rapidly as possible, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, at living wages with paid vacations, sick and maternity/paternity leave and a say in how the work is done, preferably in a co-op.
1.3.2 This meaningful work will primarily be to ensure affordable Necessities and Needs for a Decent Life are available to provide at least a decent life for all humankind now and to ensure a decent life will be available for all in the future Ultimately, individuals will be able to choose the type work they do, its location and time. Also, mainly sedentary jobs should include some physical labor and mainly physical jobs should include some sedentary work such as typing, filing, educating or being educated.
This plan should be coordinated with and provide the workforce for most of the work to implement the UN SDGs.
This will jumpstart the economy, end the recession and avoid a massive worldwide depression.
1.4.1 Immediately ensure everyone has the basic necessities of life including access to a computer, internet, email, and a computer phone beginning with children, the sick, hungry, malnourished, disabled, and homeless. Honest, caring, dedicated legislators who will pass the necessary legislation and vacate unnecessary legislation
1.4.2 Put all unemployed to work implementing: TAP41 Ensure everyone becomes self-sufficient; TAP25 Decrease the rate and degree of global warming and climate change and mitigate their adverse effects; and, other urgent SDG Target Actions
1.4.3 Implement Target Actions to Implement New Work Projects Administrations (WPAs) and Civilian Conservation Corps Equivalents throughout the U.S. in conservation, construction, engineering, medical, environmental protection with strong leaders, managers, planners and estimators in particular from the military industrial complex.
1.4.4 Rapidly put everyone possible in particular the unemployed in the Caribbean and on the Gulf Coast to work at living wages do the same throughout the U.S. and worldwide. Jobs should be made available immediately in particular for low-income and homeless individuals, American Indians, veterans, minorities, out-of-school youth, and others who face multiple barriers to employment.
1.4.5 Convert Unemployment Offices into Employment, Education and Training Offices where the unemployed and underemployed can immediately have jobs e.g. as educators and trainers or as students. Create such offices to cover every community. Each of these offices should maintain data bases of local:
1.4.5.1 Individuals looking for work and their qualifications
1.4.5.2 Employment opportunities and required qualifications
1.4.6 Require companies to return outsourced jobs to the U.S.
1.4.7 Replicate these plans prepared for the U.S. Federal Government for use in state, local and other countries governments and provided a system to share ideas among them.
1.4.8 Public services. Rehire firemen, teachers, aides, social workers and other personnel who
1.4.9 Summary of Employment Opportunities Primarily Providing Affordable Necessities and Needs for a Decent Life for all Humankind Now and in the Future
U.S. Help Put the rest of the World to Work
The U.S. must cooperate with the other countries. We are not in competition with them. U. S. wars and certain U.S. stockbrokers, bankers, corporation executives and public servants officials caused much of the current conflicts and the worldwide economic crisis. Helping the rest of the world to recovery from the crisis is the right thing to do. Unless the rest of the world does not recover soon, there could be massive starvation, migration and increases in terrorist acts. There should come a time when each large country/area of the globe does most of its own manufacturing and provides most of its own services to its own people.
1.4.10 All agencies of the government help other countries, rapidly ramp up to full employment at meaningful work at living wages . Funding for this work could be provided in about the same way as is outlined in the Summary of Funding Sources in particular:
1.4.11 Nationalize central banks and Government lend money at low or no interest rates directly to states and small businesses.
1.4.12 Enact progressive property taxes on individuals, companies and multi-national corporations.
1.4.13 Provide foreign economic aid and development funding instead of military aid and offensive weapons. This funding should be managed by the State Department, Peace Corps and AID not the Department of Defense and as much as possible, benefit the people of the country not the government
1.4.14 Strengthen and expand the U.S. Peace Corps and U.S. Agency for International Development (AID).
1.4.15 Support and help strengthen and expand the roles and assistance provided by the United Nations, its agencies and peacekeeping teams.
1.4.16 U.S. share patents with rest of world with actual inventors not corporations receiving reasonable royalties for the limited times permitted by the Constitution. Corporations may not own patents. Section 8 of the Constitution states: The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
1.4.17 Ultimately each country should in general produces goods for their own markets and nearby countries to decrease transportation costs and pay their employees enough to be customers of the goods they produce.
1.4.18 Eliminate all free trade agreements and replace them with fair trade agreements on a case by case basis
1.4.19 Reform the World Bank and IMF so that they serve the people, not just bankers, the elite and rich
BACKGROUND
The current “Great Recession” is still by far the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930's.
There is a tremendous amount of work that must be done and the funds are available to do this work.
The Problem of the Twentieth Century: Poverty in the Midst of Plenty explains how Beecher "businessmen" have kept unemployment, prices, profits and executive salaries high by keeping goods scarce, curtailing production, paying low wages and laying off employees. This keeps many in poverty and debt and provides evermore unemployed workers willing to work for even lower wages.
We must convince these businessmen that to have customers they must pay living wages. Until they do this, the government must hire a massive number of people to do the needed work and prevent the current “Great Recession” from becoming much worse than the “Great Depression” of the 1930's.
From Create Jobs - It’s The Law:
The federal government is required by law to create jobs. The Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, the Federal Reserve Act, and international law require it. A bill now in the House, H.R. 870, would fund job creation as required by Humphrey-Hawkins. If this is not passed, the President legally must instruct the Fed to fund job creation.
"When the banks had a national emergency, they bailed them out and they found $700 billion," said Cornel West, during a 9-state Poverty Tour with Tavis Smiley. “When we go to war, we find $1.3 trillion. When the poor and working classes are living in a state of emergency, it's a matter of national security, especially the children. We have 21 percent of our precious children of all colors living in poverty. That's morally obscene in the richest country in the history of the world."