Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty

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Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty

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Poverty and inequality are at record levels. Today, forty-seven million Americans live in poverty, while middle class incomes are in decline. The top 20 percent now controls 89 percent of all wealth. These conditions have renewed demands for a new Economic Bill of Rights, an American idea proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Martin Luther King Jr. The new Economic Bill of Rights has a coherent plan and proclaims that all Americans have the right to a job, a living wage, a decent home, adequate medical care, a good education, and adequate protection from economic fears of unemployment, sickness, and old age. Integrating the latest economic and social data, this new book explores each of these rights. Each chapter includes an analysis of the social problems surrounding each right, a historical overview of the attempts to implement these rights, and assessments of current solutions offered by citizens, community groups, and politicians. These contemporary, real-life solutions to inequality can inspire students and citizens to become involved and open pathways toward a more just society. Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

ISBN

978-1612057262

Publication Date

11-1-2014

Publisher

Paradigm Publishers

City

Boulder, CO

Disciplines

Civic and Community Engagement | Inequality and Stratification | Sociology

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Scott Myers-Lipton

Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty

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