Raising the Floor
Andy Stern
Raising the Floor confronts America's biggest economic challenge--the fundamental restructuring of the economy and the emerging disruptive technology that threaten secure jobs and income. Andy Stern convincingly shows why it is time to consider a universal basic income as the nation's twenty-first-century solution to increasing inequality.
In 2010 troubled by watching families chase the now-elusive American Dream Andy Stern began a five-year journey to investigate how technology will impact jobs and the future of work. Stern formerly the head of the nation's most influential and fastest-growing union the Service Employees International Union investigated these issues with a wide range of CEOs futurists economists workers entrepreneurs and investment bankers who are shaping the future.
The sobering assessment that emerged from his research across the political spectrum from libertarians at the CATO Institute to the leaders of the progressive left is that this time is different: there will be meager benefits that come with full-time work and fewer good jobs overall. Facing such a challenging moment Stern's solution is fittingly bold: to establish a universal basic income by eliminating many current government programs and adding new resources. At once vivid provocative and pragmatic Raising the Floor will spark a national conversation about creating the new American Dream.
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