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- Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
Across 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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- I. Introduction
- II. Reeducating Ourselves about What It Means to Be Poor
- 3 Our History Shapes Our Thinking
- pp. 29-32
- 5 A New Definition of Poverty
- pp. 43-52
- III. Poverty and Lack of Work
- IV. Work and Poverty
- 8 The Working Poor
- pp. 71-84
- 9 Low-Wage Work
- pp. 85-90
- V. A Constitutional Right to a Job at a Living Wage
- 10 A Constitutional Amendment
- pp. 93-99
- 11 Support for a Right to a Job
- pp. 100-116
- 12 Support for a Right to Living Wages
- pp. 117-136
- 14 The Way to End Poverty as We Know It
- pp. 159-164
- Suggested Web Resources for Further Reading
- pp. 223-224
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 225-240
Additional Information
ISBN
9781592137770
Related ISBN(s)
9781592130320, 9781592130337
MARC Record
OCLC
614480691
Pages
253
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2003