The Next Agenda: Blueprint For A New Progressive Movement

401 Pages·2001·57.34 MB·English

by  Robert Borosage

THE NEXT AGENDA
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THE NEXT
AGENDA
BLUEPRINT FOR A NEW
PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
edited by
ROBERT L. BOROSAGE
ROGER HICKEY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The next agenda : Blueprint for a new progressive movement / edited by Robert L.
Borosage and Roger Hickey.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-9814-2
1. United States—Social policy—1993- . 2. United States —Economic
policy—1993- . 3. United States—Politics and government— 1993- ,
I. Borosage, Robert L. II. Hickey, Roger.
HN65 .N48 2000
361.6T0973-dc21
00-043986
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American
National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials
Z39.48-1984.
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To our parents
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction: The Progressive Majority' 1
Robert L. Borosage and Stanley B. Greenberg
CHOOSING GROWTH WITH JUSTICE
1 What Kind of America Do We Want? 21
Jeff Faux
2 Global Fairness: The Historic Debate 49
Robert L. Borosage and William Greider
RENEWING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
3 Working Families: The Centerpiece for Reform 73
Theda Skocpol
4 The Path to Universal Health Care 93
Jonathan Oberlander and Theodore R. Mannor
5 Economic Security for Women and Children:
What Will It Take? 127
Heidi Hartmann
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6 To Improve Student Learning: Ask the Right Questions 161
Richard Rothstein
7 Metropolitan Power: The Next Urban Agenda 189
Bruce Katz and Joel Rogers
8 Leave No One Behind: A Policy Framework on
Poverty, Race, and Justice 211
Lynn A. Curtis and William E. Spriggs
SHAPING THE FUTURE
9 Green Growth: Agenda for a Just Transition
to a Sustainable Economy 249
Carl Pope and Robert Wages
10 Sky Trust: How to Fight Global Warming
and Pay Dividends to All Americans 275
Peter Barnes and Rafe Pomerance
EMPOWERING PEOPLE IN POLITICS
11 Empowering Workers 291
David Moberg
12 Democracy That Works: Clean Money Campaign Reform 319
Ellen S. Miller and Micah L. Sifry
13 A Movement for Economic Security in an Age of Change 345
Roger Hickey
Contributors 369
Index 375
Illustrations
Tables
5.1 Growth in women's earnings by educational level,
1978-1998 133
8.1 Summary of Federal Investments, Proposed 232
Figures
5.1 Trends in labor force participation rates for women,
1950-1995, by birth cohort 131
5.2 Trends in labor force participation rates for men
and women, 1960 and 1995, by age 132
5.3 Median annual earnings of full-time, year-around
workers, 1979-1998 138
5.4 Women's median annual earnings as a percentage
of men's, 1979-1998 139
5.5 Women's median weekly earnings as a percentage
of men's, 1979-2000 140
5.6 The female-male wage gap over the life cycle 141
5.7 The increasing responsibility of women workers
for family financial needs 144
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