; Whereas the United States is facing new workforce challenges relating to privacy, worker autonomy, data gathering and surveillance, and automation, as a result of new technologies and the rapidly changing nature of industry, and these challenges have been accelerated by the COVID–19 pandemic; Whereas the United States regularly suffers from high levels of underemployment, persistent joblessness among marginalized populations, and the growth of primarily low-quality jobs, resulting in— (1) the loss of millions of hours of potential output, as well as deterioration of skills and productive capacity; (2) lower community living standards, increased levels of working poverty and homelessness, and higher rates of individual and family suffering, including physical and mental health problems; (3) higher rates of workplace discrimination, harassment, and a last hired, first fired approach that disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, including Black workers, women, LGTBQIA workers, workers with disabilities, formerly incarcerated workers, and young and elderly workers; (4) an effective minimum wage of zero for those who cannot obtain employment; and (5) an increasing fraction of the workforce forced to undertake multiple jobs, or engage in dangerous work with insufficient labor protections; Whereas reliance on private investment alone has never historically succeeded in establishing a true full employment economy, in which every individual wishing to undertake paid work can do so; Whereas reliance on education, skill development, job training, and other indirect policies alone have never historically succeeded in establishing a true full employment economy, in which every individual wishing to undertake paid work can do so; Whereas untargeted, demand-increasing stimulus alone has never historically succeeded in establishing a true full employment economy, in which every individual wishing to undertake paid work can do so