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Rebuild America

Solving the Economic Crisis Through Civic Works

By: Scott Myers-Lipton

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Rebuild America

Solving the Economic Crisis Through Civic Works

By: Scott Myers-Lipton

In Obama's America public works is once again a part of the national dialogue. Today it is offered as a solution to the economic downturn and to the public infrastructure crisis. This timely book examines the reasons for the economic crisis facing Main Street, and connects them to why the nation has structurally deficient bridges, weak levees, poorly maintained dams, and dilapidated schools. The book goes on to analyse the history of US public works, updating lessons from the New Deal, to understand the most effective way to organise a modern US civic works project, based on a civic works pilot project for the Gulf Coast. One chapter features new contributions by Howard Zinn, Angela Glover Blackwell, and other leading scholars and thinkers weighing in on how an US civic works project might solve our economic, infrastructure, and environmental crises.

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1317253167

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Social Solutions to Poverty

America's Struggle to Build a Just Society

By: Scott Myers-Lipton,Charles C. Lemert

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Social Solutions to Poverty

America's Struggle to Build a Just Society

By: Scott Myers-Lipton,Charles C. Lemert

The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are collected for the first time in this comprehensive historical anthology. The book traces the most important ideas and contributions of citizens, activists, labour leaders, scholars, politicians, and governmental agencies to ensure American citizens the basics of food, housing, employment, education, and health care. The book follows the idea of poverty reduction from Thomas Paine's agrarian justice to Josiah Quincy's proposal for the construction of poorhouses; from the Freedmen's Bureau to Sitting Bull's demand for money and supplies; from Coxey's army of the unemployed to Jane Addams's Hull House; from the Civil Works Administration to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call for an Economic Bill of Rights; and from William Julius Wilson's universal programme of reform to George W. Bush's armies of compassion.

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1317251857

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Ending Extreme Inequality

An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty

By: Scott Myers-Lipton

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Ending Extreme Inequality

An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty

By: Scott Myers-Lipton

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.

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1317260511

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CHANGE!

A Guide to Teaching Social Action

By: Scott Myers-Lipton

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CHANGE!

A Guide to Teaching Social Action

By: Scott Myers-Lipton

CHANGE! A Guide to Teaching Social Action is for faculty, staff, and students who are interested in developing a college course or co-curricular experience using social action. Social action occurs when everyday people band together to develop their power in order to change policy. What distinguishes a social action class from other social change courses is that students are actively involved in enacting a policy change of their choice, thus providing students with a first-hand experience of democracy and power. As part of the social action class, students can start a new campaign, keep a campaign going from the previous semester, reactivate a campaign from a previous year, or join a community campaign. The goal of this book is to train the next generation of democratic citizens and participants. The hope is that if teaching social action is mainstreamed in higher education, students will be able to do democracy more effectively, and help to preserve it at the same time. More specifically, the book provides an overview of the history of college social action, explores what needs to be considered before starting a social action class, explains how students choose their campaigns and launch them, and how students plan, implement, and evaluate their campaigns.

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1000533980

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CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action

By: Scott Myers-Lipton

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CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action

By: Scott Myers-Lipton

This is the first practical social change text devoted to students working in an academic environment. While there are many books about community organizing and social change, there are no college texts focusing on how to provide real-world experience with academic content taking into consideration the flow of the academic term. CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action is written specifically for faculty and staff to use with college students with the goal of helping students bring about the change they believe is necessary to make our community a better place to live.

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CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action

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A New Engagement?

Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen

By: Cliff Zukin,Scott Keeter,Molly Andolina,Krista Jenkins,Michael X. Delli Carpini

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A New Engagement?

Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen

By: Cliff Zukin,Scott Keeter,Molly Andolina,Krista Jenkins,Michael X. Delli Carpini

In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Engagement challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. In order to understand the current nature of citizen engagement, it is critical to separate political from civic engagement. Using the results from an original set of surveys and the authors' own primary research, they conclude that while older citizens participate by voting, young people engage by volunteering and being active in their communities.

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0199884757

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CHANGE!

A Guide to Teaching Social Action

By: Scott Myers-Lipton

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A Guide to Teaching Social Action

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Social Solutions to Poverty

America's Struggle to Build a Just Society

By: Scott Myers-Lipton,Charles C. Lemert

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America's Struggle to Build a Just Society

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Rebuild America

Solving the Economic Crisis Through Civic Works

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Rebuild America

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CHANGE!

CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action

CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action

CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action

CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action

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A New Engagement?

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CHANGE!

Social Solutions to Poverty

Social Solutions to Poverty

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