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Alexander Wallace
Sep. 2, 2024, midnight

Maybe the Federal Employment ACt is something like the Humphrey-Hawkins bill proposed in our world in the 1970s? I first learned about it reading Jefferson Cowie's 'Stayin' Alive' - it dawned on me, there, how much economic populism was in vogue then that just has been memory holed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey%E2%80%93Hawkins_Full_Employment_Act

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