Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A JobAcross the United States tens of millions of people are working forty or more hours a week...and living in poverty. This is surprising in a country where politicians promise that anyone who does their share, and works hard, will get ahead. In Ending Poverty As We Know It, William Quigley argues that it is time to make good on that promise by adding to the Constitution language that insures those who want to work can do so—and at a wage that enables them to afford reasonable shelter, clothing, and food. |
Contents
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III Poverty and Lack of Work | 53 |
IV Work and Poverty | 69 |
V A Constitutional Right to a Job at a Living Wage | 91 |
Notes | 165 |
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Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job William Quigley No preview available - 2003 |
Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job William Quigley No preview available - 2003 |
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Page 3 - When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy: neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and its government.
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Economic Globalisation as Religious War: Tragic Convergence Michael McKinley No preview available - 2007 |