Middle Class Jobs

Mark Bartold

• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781639857340
• eBook ISBN: 9781639857357
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Process
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In 2008, the financial crisis caused many workers to lose their jobs. Middle-Class Jobs is a book that was written to try to focus on policies that could be created and passed to create middle-class jobs as well as solve many problems our country needs to address. The book is designed to be a basic reference guide in determining what types of policies could benefit communities by providing middle-class jobs.

Instead of chapters 1 and 2, the sections are broken into policy 1, policy 2, and so on. The policies describe an assortment of jobs with a generic cost per job that is multiplied by the total amount of workers allocated in each policy. Each of these policies are familiar topics, and the readers can flip to whichever policy they are interested in without having to read each policy before it.

Middle-Class Jobs does have some commentary from the author, which brings more context to the particular policy being suggested. Obviously, everyone has their views on different subjects, and for the most part, what we all want is accountability, trust, security, and jobs to feed our families. Each of these policies can be adjusted to the reader's own specifications. The policies are only suggestions and not ready to be voted on and passed. The policies altogether would create over ten million jobs. The talk of the shrinking middle class has gone on for decades, and the only way to create more middle-class jobs is to create policies similar to the ones in this book. Social security, income taxes, and accountability are also policies in the book Middle-Class Jobs.

To conclude, when the reader is wondering how to solve an issue and create middle-class jobs at the same time, all the reader has to do is grab the book Middle-Class Jobs, find a policy that describes the need, and determine how many jobs they want to create.

POLICY 1 

New City Development

This is the most extravagant policy, but it is the easiest way to put a million people to work and add an additional million people every five years after that.

The first step is to determine the location for a major city to be built and then determine what kind of city you want to build.

For example, Dubai always fascinated me on how a city full of rich people could be built in such a short time frame. There was a location by the water and in an area that could sustain monstrous skyscrapers. Islands were created in images of palm trees and even a world map of islands to help capture the imagination of the people that would live there, shopping malls, museums, Lamborghinis, indoor ski slopes, and all the comforts of big city living located in the desert.

Since we live in the United States, the new cities would need to have a majority of middle-class people living there with 10 percent rich and less than 10 percent people with special needs. A freshwater source, cropland, solar, and wind would be perfect locations for building a new city and having an energy efficient, zero carbon emission city would be the best way to start our policy example.

Now that we have the goal set, it’s time to finally put some people to work. Zoning, water tests, ground tests, architecture of city, as well as the placement of the water purification system, windmills, solar panels, crops, plants, trees, sidewalks, and electric mass transit system will require a coordinated team of planners, architects, industrial engineers, and private industry representatives to establish the size and cost of the new utilities and construction. Planning for efficiency of usage, air quality, and psychological studies would need to be done to consider the right light and colors to use in the city. In addition to living quarters, shops, and restaurants, there will be a need for a city hall, fire department, police, hospital, churches, community centers, schools from K to masters programs and trade schools. Think of it like SimCity-type game but for real.

Now I will list the various living wage jobs that can be created with an example of how many jobs can be created and how much it will cost. How you find or pay for the policy will be discussed in a later chapter.

Living wage of $15 an hour and the costs to implement for a yearly total of eighty thousand per job unit in which some jobs are two or three times multiplier.

Labor breakdown for “New City Development” would take another book and would depend on the size of the project. I will give you a generic two-phased assumption of what it would cost for a million jobs.

Phase 1—planning, designing, logistics and land use studies, and providing access to project by way of land, air, and sea.

40,000 jobs at $80,000 = $3.2 billion

40,000 jobs at $160,000 = $6.4 billion

20,000 jobs at $240,000 = $9.6 billion

Phase 1—total jobs of 100,000, costing $19.2 billion.

Phase 2—construction and support services.

600,000 jobs at $80,000 = $48.0 billion

280,000 jobs at $160,000 = $44.8 billion

20,000 jobs at $240,000 = $4.8 billion

Phase 2—total jobs of 900,000, costing $97.6 billion.

A majority of phase 1 jobs can continue into phase 2 to implement the phase 1 work as well as follow-ups and inspections.

With that being said, any employees that are not needed in phase 2 can be retrained or transferred to other cities across the country.

POLICY 2

Immigration

Immigration policy has been discussed for the last few decades and has never satisfied any of the critics no matter what party you are from. Now is the time to fix the immigration system that will last centuries.

World War II as well as other wars produced challenging immigration policies for immigrants to come to the United States, yet we managed to figure out how to organize millions of people to be placed in our nation of immigrants. In the last forty years, immigration has been a political nightmare. Both parties have had policies that have either been detrimental to immigrants or had no policy at all, which led to distrust in the system all together.

Immigration officers will be needed to process more immigrants legally. Fees are paid by most immigrants and work visas shall be offered to the seasonal workers. The worker shortages of low-wage jobs in 2021 was multilayered. Immigrants were demonized between 2017 and 2021, and Central and South America had outbreaks of Covid-19, causing loss of life and lockdowns. Most of the ten to twelve million illegal immigrants either went back to their home countries or went to other countries that were in need of workers. In addition, some may have got sick and died. At the time of my transcribing of this book, over 650,000 people died in the US from Covid-19. Retirement-aged workers who worked passed retirement age decided it was better to retire than to put themselves at risk at work.

Immigrants are needed more than ever to help our country recover and grow. From low-wage workers to doctors and engineers, we need workers.

China has over one billion more people than we do, and with the pressure against China increasing every day, the global economy has been fractured, which has led to jobs opening back up in the US that were exported thirty years ago. The challenge is finding enough workers to fill positions as well as competent trained workers. Lowering the age for workers will no doubt come up, but it would be a mistake to have young workers working...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Policy 1: New City Development
• Policy 2: Immigration
• Policy 3: Health Care
• Policy 4: Personal Security
• Policy 5: Homeland Security
• Policy 6: International Peace and Trade
• Policy 7: Legal System
• Policy 8: Welfare and Medicaid to Work
• Policy 9: Infrastructure
• Policy 10: Climate Change
• Policy 11: Education System Part 1
• Policy 12: Education System Part 2
• Policy 13: Social Security and Tax Law
• Policy 14: Accountability and Balanced Budgets
• Conclusion
• About the Author