[PDF] Freedom Budget For All Americans Budgeting Our Resources eBook

Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1583673628

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While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race. It favored production for social use instead of profit; social ownership; and democratic control over major economic decisions. The document that best captured this vision was the Freedom Budget for All Americans: Budgeting Our Resources, 1966-1975, To Achieve Freedom from Want published by the A. Philip Randolph Institute and endorsed by a virtual ‘who’s who’ of U.S. left liberalism and radicalism. Now, two of today’s leading socialist thinkers return to the Freedom Budget and its program for economic justice. Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates explain the origins of the Freedom Budget, how it sought to achieve “freedom from want” for all people, and how it might be reimagined for our current moment. Combining historical perspective with clear-sighted economic proposals, the authors make a concrete case for reviving the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement and building the society of economic security and democratic control envisioned by the movement’s leaders—a struggle that continues to this day.

Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 158367361X

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While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race. It favored production for social use instead of profit; social ownership; and democratic control over major economic decisions. The document that best captured this vision was the Freedom Budget for All Americans: Budgeting Our Resources, 1966-1975, To Achieve Freedom from Want published by the A. Philip Randolph Institute and endorsed by a virtual ‘who’s who’ of U.S. left liberalism and radicalism. Now, two of today’s leading socialist thinkers return to the Freedom Budget and its program for economic justice. Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates explain the origins of the Freedom Budget, how it sought to achieve “freedom from want” for all people, and how it might be reimagined for our current moment. Combining historical perspective with clear-sighted economic proposals, the authors make a concrete case for reviving the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement and building the society of economic security and democratic control envisioned by the movement’s leaders—a struggle that continues to this day.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty
Publisher :
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic books
ISBN :

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Assesses accomplishments and problems of government antipoverty programs implementing the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Includes "Freedom Budget for All Americans, Budgeting Our Resources, 1966-1975 To Achieve Freedom From Want, " A. Philip Randolph Institute, Oct. 1966 (p. 417-504).

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN :

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Continuation of hearings on the need for Federal programs to address urban poverty. Focuses on the budgetary and welfare proposals of the A. Philip Randolph Institute embodied in their "Freedom Budget for All Americans, Budgeting Our Resources, 1966-75 To Achieve Freedom From Want, " programs.

Author : Nancy MacLean
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674027497

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In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. How did such a transformation come about? In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, MacLean chronicles the cultural and political advances that have irrevocably changed our nation over the past fifty years. Freedom Is Not Enough reveals the fundamental role jobs play in the struggle for equality. We meet the grassroots activists—rank-and-file workers, community leaders, trade unionists, advocates, lawyers—and their allies in government who fight for fair treatment, as we also witness the conservative forces that assembled to resist their demands. Weaving a powerful and memorable narrative, MacLean demonstrates the life-altering impact of the Civil Rights Act and the movement for economic advancement that it fostered. The struggle for jobs reached far beyond the workplace to transform American culture. MacLean enables us to understand why so many came to see good jobs for all as the measure of full citizenship in a vital democracy. Opening up the workplace, she shows, opened minds and hearts to the genuine inclusion of all Americans for the first time in our nation’s history.