Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job

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Index AFL-CIO, 58, 128 African Americans: household income level, 168n. 18; infant mortality rate, 25; and minimum wage, 23; and poverty, 24–25; and unemployment, 56, 57–58 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 63 Alic, John, 153 Ambrose, Stephen, 160 American dream, 4 American Farm Bureau Federation, 111 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 110 American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), 127, 146 American Veterans Committee, 111 Annie E. Casey Foundation, 144 Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), 128, 210n. 67 Bane, Mary Jo, 145 Bartik, Timothy, 142, 155 Bernstein, Jared, 134 Bismarck, Otto von, 15 Black, Charles, 139–40, 217n. 4 Blank, Rebecca M., 39, 59, 77, 84, 142, 153 Bluestone, Barry, 62, 82–83, 153 Boeing Aerospace, 146 British Trade Boards Act (1909), 122 Brocht, Chauna, 211n. 75 Bumpers, Dale, 97 Business Week, 83 Carter, Jimmy, 201n. 79 Catholic Church, support of workers, 115, 130–31. See also popes Cerami, Charles, 142–43 Cessna Aircraft, 146 Chapman, Jeff, 134 Chase Manhattan, 61, 183n. 50 Cherry, Robert, 152 children, and poverty, 25 Citizens for Tax Justice, 154 Civil Works Administration (CWA), 104 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 194n. 25 Colborne, Peter T., 79 Collins, Sheila D., 16, 94, 134 Committee on Economic Security (CES), 1105 Commons, John R., 16, 103 Community Jobs, 146 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) (1973), 112, 199–200n. 66 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 110 Congressional Budget Office, 66, 155 Congressional Research Service (CRS), 86, 118, 204n. 7 constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to work for a living wage, 3, 9, 11–12, 93–99, 137–41, 159–63; cost of, 154–58; creating a living wage, 148– 54; expanding employment, 141–48; government and political support for, 101–3; principles of, 11; public support for, 10, 100–101; religious support for, 114–16 Consumer Price Index, 37, 41 Consumer’s League, 131 corporate tax breaks, 221n. 57 Corporation for Enterprise Development, 48 Davis-Bacon Act, 210n. 62 Declaration of Independence, 45 Dependent Care Tax Credit, 125–26, 151 241 242 Index Dewey, Thomas, 110 Duke, David, 19–20 Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), 41, 87, 119, 125, 126, 151, 152, 153, 209n. 53 Economic Policy Institute, 24, 38, 50, 83–84, 120, 126, 187–88n. 13 education, and income, 184n. 54 Ehrenreich, Barbara, 72–73 elderly: as beneficiaries of federal money, 169n. 30; and poverty, 25–26, 168n. 22 employer consortiums, 142 Employment Act (1946), 109–12 Employment-Centered Social Policy, 143, 153 Employment Policies Institute, 129, 211n. 74 English poor laws, 29–31, 88–89, 101–2, 121, 170n. 8, 188n. 23, 207n. 29; and the English Poor Law Commission, 32 Episcopal Church, 131 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 82 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 86, 122, 123–24, 181n. 9, 187n. 9, 208n. 46, 209n. 47 family composition, 169n. 27 Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Project, 5, 48–50 Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 131 Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) (1933), 104 Federal Living Wage Responsibility Act, 126 Federal Reserve, 60–61, 65 food stamp program, 6, 119 Ford, Gerald, 125 Ford Foundation, 48 Fortune, 100–101, 106 free market, 6–8, 132–33 Friedman, Milton, 112 Full Employment Bill, 107, 110 Gaffney, James, 222n. 77 Galbraith, James K., 156, 212n. 83 Gallo, Frank, 71 gender-pay gap, 169n. 26 General Motors, 61, 78 Gil, David, 16, 94 globalization, 61; Pope Paul II’s criticism of, 115 Goldberg, Gertrude Schaffner, 16, 94, 139 government, as the employer of last resort, 143 Great Depression, 8, 57, 103 Greenspan, Alan, 129 Greenstein, Robert, 151 Guinier, Lani, 58 Guitierrez, Luis, 126 Hamilton, Alexander, 95 Harding, Warren G., 157 “Hardships in America” (Economic Policy Institute), 50 Harrison, Bennett, 62, 82–83, 153 Harvey, Philip, 16, 94, 154 Haveman, Robert, 143, 153 Hawkins, Augustus, 112–13, 200n. 69 Herzenberg, Stephen, 153 Hispanics: and minimum wage, 23; and poverty, 24–25 Human Employment Tax Credit, 142–43 human rights, 190n 15 Humphrey, Hubert, 200n. 69 Humphrey—Hawkins Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act (1978), 112–14, 200n. 69 income gaps: between CEOs and workers, 83–84, 185n. 70; between low-wage and high-wage workers, 185n. 68; between nations, 169n. 34 Indiana Economic Development Council, 38–39 individualism, 81; internalized individualism , 81 Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, 80 Internal Revenue Service, 126 internalized classism, 81 International Association of Machinists, 146 Ivins, Molly, 74 Jackson, Jesse L., Jr., 16, 55, 94, 139, 217n. 2 Jefferson, Thomas, 93...