Cortney Sanders, NJFAN Institute Supervisor
New York, NY– [September 11, 2025] — The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy (the Institute) at The New School is happy to note a new chapter in its mission to make sure meaningful work as a fundamental human right. In partnership with the National Jobs for All Network (NJFAN), the Institute welcomes Cortney Sanders as the inaugural Institute supervisor of NJFAN, where she will lead a renewed nationwide project to advance plans securing the right to a excellent work for all.
Each time when government job cuts are accelerating, the labor market is softening, and millions of Americans deal with placing insecurity, this news comes as both immediate and required. Recent reports show reducing work growth, delicate employment potential customers, and expanding precarity across industries that are important to our public facilities. Against this background, NJFAN’s restored promote the right to an excellent work emphasizes a vibrant choice: that government can and must ensure secure, significant benefit all– transforming today’s unpredictability into lasting financial liberty, justness and safety and security.
The National Jobs for All Network is rooted in a straightforward but effective belief: every person that wishes to work must deserve to a good and efficient job. Employment is not only an income– it is the structure of self-respect, safety, and financial agency. A government job warranty would make this best actual by making certain that every willing worker can access purposeful, at least living-wage employment that reinforces neighborhoods, broadens chance, and builds a more just economic climate.
“Dignity is multifaceted; one’s self-respect is not restricted by work. People are innovative and effective by nature and everybody is worthy of the self-respect of an effective job with decent salaries, benefits and working problems,” said Darrick Hamilton, College Teacher, Henry Cohen Teacher of Business Economics and Urban Plan at The New Institution and Founding Supervisor of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economic Situation. “A government job assurance is not brand-new or radical– FDR asked for it in
his 1944 Economic Costs of Rights, and leaders from A. Philip Randolph to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. promoted it in the 1966 Freedom Spending plan. Let’s turn around the trend of dismantling our public field and rather put our nation to function resolving the existential dilemmas of climate adjustment, the treatment economy, and our deteriorating public infrastructure.”
Sanders involves the placement with over a years of experience at the intersection of racial equity, monetary policy, and government insurance program. She formerly held senior functions at the Center on Budget and Plan Priorities, where she concentrated on state fiscal plan, and at the U.S. Social
Safety and security Administration, where she led initiatives to check out labor market barriers and retired life end results. A calculated thinker and coalition contractor, she has actually worked throughout government, state, and not-for-profit sectors to make certain that public law provides for all neighborhoods.
Under Sanders’ management, NJFAN will certainly broaden its presence and policy advocacy to win support for government regulation that assures employment as a basic right. This effort improves years of scholarship and advocacy from NJFAN co-founder Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Professor Emerita of Community Service at Adelphi University, and honors the legacy of Helen Lachs Ginsburg, Teacher Emerita of Economics at Brooklyn University, whose pioneering vision and generous bequest made this new stage of work possible.
“Building on FDR’s ‘Economic Bill of Legal rights’– frequently called the ‘speech of the century’– we’re dedicated to protecting the right to living-wage job,” claimed Goldberg. “With NJFAN’s partnership with Institute on Race, Power and Political Economic Situation at The New College, and with Cortney Sanders leading the National Jobs for All Network, we’re speeding up development toward a Federal Job Assurance.”
The situation for a federal work warranty is both moral and practical. By making sure that every person has the right to respectable work, a task assurance would:
● Eliminate involuntary unemployment;
● Stabilize the economic situation by decreasing instability and inequality;
● Develop a much more proficient and resilient workforce; and
● Supply necessary services and infrastructure in areas throughout the country.
With this new effort, NJFAN and the Institute are uniting policymakers, labor leaders, scholars, and grassroots coordinators to make the promise of a job ensure a truth.
“Together, we can create an economy where every person has the chance to flourish through the transformative power of assured, meaningful work. Where dignity is restored since individuals have a right to a good job within an economy that centers people and the environment in which we live,” Sanders stated.
About the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economic Situation
The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy (the Institute) developments study to recognize architectural inequalities and works to recognize cutting-edge means to advertise equity. A premier cross-disciplinary center, the Institute draws on faculty across The New School in New York City City, which has long promoted innovative thinking of power, structure, layout, politics, economics, and culture. The Institute involves with scientists and specialists, including neighborhood and magnate, policymakers, benefactors and journalists, across the country and worldwide. Learn more at racepowerpolicy.org