Scott Myers-Lipton

Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty Scott Myers-Lipton 1. izdevums

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: 1 The Right to a Job: The First Amendment 2 The Right to a Living Wage: The Second Amendment 3 The Right to a Decent Home: The Third Amendment 4 The Right to a Good Education: The Fourth Amendment 5 The Right to Adequate Medical Care: The Fifth Amendment 6 The Right to Adequate Protection from Economic Fears of Old Age, Sickness, Accident, and Unemployment: The Sixth AmendmentPublisher Marketing: 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 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 individuals, civic organizations, 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. Visit Scott Myers-Lipton's website here!

Contributor Bio:  Myers-Lipton, Scott Scott J. Myers-Lipton, Professor of Sociology at San Jose State University, is the author of "Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Works" and "Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society", as well as numerous scholarly articles. He founded the successful effort to raise the minimum wage in San Jose from $8 to $10, and the Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign, an initiative to develop 100,000 prevailing wage jobs for local and displaced workers after Hurricane Katrina. He has worked to help students develop solutions to poverty by taking them to live at homeless shelters, the Navajo and Lakota nations, the US Gulf Coast, and Kingston, Jamaica.