Joe Biden seems determined to lead the US into the future by driving bold fiscal policies they have achieved in the past. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which drove the country away from the abyss of the Great Recession in the 1930s, then cost $41.7bn with a flashback and included inflation between then and 2020.
The infrastructure program recently announced by U.S. President Joe Biden is reaching $2.33 billion with the goal of creating millions of well-paid jobs.
by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis
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But this program does not cover American youth and generally does not eradicate poverty among young people. Well-paid jobs are desirable especially in the low-income classes and especially in the working class.
However, this does not mean that the problems of poverty are automatically solved, especially among young people who are unskilled. The ultimate objective of the infrastructure program over time should include, among other things, the following two objectives:
- To increase the number of young people, regardless of national origin living in the USA.
- Young people should not feel insecure if they want to have children.
To achieve these objectives, resources should be transferred to all young people and not to some minority population groups of them. Transfer of resources, Mr. President, means cash in hand.
To achieve this, the basic guaranteed income for all young people should be institutionalised without any conditions and all young American citizens aged 18-26 should receive it.
For this reason, Congress should establish as a basic guaranteed income for the above category of citizens an amount of about $600 per month. This income will offer American youth dignity, time, and choice.
In addition, Congress should pass measures that would support quality youth employment. Young people’s work should not be regarded as a cheap, temporary job in focus, tourism, construction and especially in the agricultural sector, which is often underpaid and uninsured.
American youth are the victims of every recession in the US, so part of the $2m infrastructure program is a brilliant opportunity to change this situation.
The US will also have to attract families or individual young immigrants who can settle in the American countryside by revitalising it with their work.
This can be achieved by concluding bilateral agreements with developing world countries to attract workers who meet needs in the American agricultural economy.
The sectors of the US agricultural economy should not only be revitalised by labour but also agricultural work in it should be paid much better than what is currently the case.
Combined with basic guaranteed income for young people, all these policies will keep young people in the American countryside and bring American youth out of poverty more generally.
