Work: The Key to the Social Question

Job creation is a key agenda item for the current administration in 2010.  This is a moral task as well as an economic necessity.  From a theological perspective, authentic human flourishing can only be realized when all members of the human family are able to participate, through effort and engagement, in the process of the ongoing creation of the world.

In a marketplace where profit often takes precedence over the dignity and rights of workers, it is important to recognize that the economy must serve the people, not the other way around.