Since the neoliberal era began in the 1970s, many public policy thinkers have assumed that America’s employment-based benefit system of welfare capitalism is doomed to extinction by the growth in freelance or gig workers. To replace employer benefits, the left tends to support welfare statism and the right tends to support welfare individualism, in the form of portable, individualized tax credits or savings accounts.
A Response to Ganesh Sitaraman
Local content requirements offer a simple intervention with benefits that its prohibitionist detractors ignore.
The COVID-19 panic has drawn long-overdue attention to the economic and health and financial challenges facing many āessential workersā including nurses and health aides, nursing home aides, slaughterhouse workers, truckers, grocery store clerks and other retail workers, warehouse workers, and others upon whom the daily functioning of our continental society depends.
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