Whereas, 75 years ago, Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set forth the economic right to employment, recognizing that everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment ; Whereas a job guarantee was a central demand and unfinished legacy of the civil rights movement, such that— (1) at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr., joined A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin in demanding a job guarantee; (2) in the subsequent decade, Coretta Scott King led a grassroots movement to enact a job guarantee; (3) these leaders all built on and advanced the work of earlier pioneers like Sadie T.M. Alexander, the Nation’s first Black economist, who advocated a job guarantee to address racial discrimination against Black workers, while improving labor market conditions for all workers in the 1940s; and (4) throughout the past 100 years, activists and intellectuals like Ella Baker and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party have all seen a Federal job guarantee as a key element of racial justice; Whereas the right to a useful and remunerative job was the first and most fundamental right in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposed Economic Bill of Rights and is a core plank of the Green New Deal movement and the People’s Justice Guarantee; Whereas a job guarantee is essential to any effort to close the racial and gender income and wealth gap; Whereas the United States has, on multiple occasions, including from 1945 to 1946, 1977 to 1978, and more recently, introduced legislation in an attempt to establish a full employment economy; Whereas the commitment to full employment has been embraced by Congress and is part of the statutory mandate of the Federal Reserve System