The Trouble With Full Employment.

The article discusses the problems faced by the Americans in implementing full employment in the United States. There are huge differences between U.S. President Ronald Reagan's vision of full employment and the left's. Most left-wing proposals include an increased minimum wage, improved health and safety standards. The first and most obvious problem is in seizing the old liberal language of jobs and growth by the public relations coup. A potentially more serious problem is that in emphasizing full employment the left ignores the cutting edge of economic reality, in Reagan's America: there are jobs, but a diminishing proportion of them pay enough to support a middle-class life style or even a modest level of comfort and dignity.