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Poverty and inequality are at record levels. Today, forty-seven million Americans live in poverty, while the median is 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 idea proposed by F. D. Roosevelt, 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, good education, and adequate protection from economic fears of unemployment, sickness and old age. Integrating the latest economic and social data, Ending Extreme Inequality explores each of these rights. Each chapter includes: an analysis of the social problems surrounding each right; a historical overview of the attempts to right these wrongs; 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.
Poverty and inequality are at record levels. Today, forty-seven million Americans live in poverty, while the median is 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 idea proposed by F. D. Roosevelt, 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, good education, and adequate protection from economic fears of unemployment, sickness and old age. Integrating the latest economic and social data, Ending Extreme Inequality explores each of these rights. Each chapter includes: an analysis of the social problems surrounding each right; a historical overview of the attempts to right these wrongs; 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.
Chapter 1 The Right to a Job; Chapter 2 The Right to a Living Wage; Chapter 3 The Right to a Decent Home; Chapter 4 The Right to a Good Education; Chapter 5 The Right to Adequate Medical Care; Chapter 6 The Right to Adequate Protection from Economic Fears of Old Age, Sickness, Accident, and Unemployment; epi Epilogue;
Scott Myers-Lipton, Associate Professor at San Jose State
University, is the author of Social Solutions to Poverty: America's
Struggle to Build a Just Society (Paradigm 2006), as well as
numerous scholarly articles on civic engagement, education, and
racism.
For the past 20 years, Myers-Lipton has helped students examine
solutions to poverty by taking them to live at homeless shelters,
the Navajo and Lakota nations, Kingston, Jamaica and the Gulf
Coast. He is also the cofounder of the Gulf Coast Civic Works
Campaign. He is the recipient of the Mover of Mountains Award from
the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Santa Clara County
and the Manuel Vega Latino Empowerment Award. He lives with his
wife, Diane, and his two children, in the Santa Cruz mountains,
where they are the proprietors of the Sequoia Retreat Center, a
meeting space dedicated to individual and social
transformation.
Catalog Author Bio
Scott Myers-Lipton, Associate Professor at San Jose State
University, is the author of Social Solutions to Poverty: America's
Struggle to Build a Just Society (Paradigm 2006), as well as
numerous scholarly articles on civic engagement, education, and
racism.
"This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the growing problems of inequality and poverty who is seeking realistic options for what can be done about it. Ending Extreme Inequality is a refreshing look at the problems of inequality and poverty in the U.S. that offers viable solutions in an easy-to-read and engaging way."— Dr. Clayton D. Peoples, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno
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