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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1050 

To establish a living wage, jobs for all policy for all peoples in the United 

States and its territories, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 14, 2007 

Ms. LEE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Armed Services, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 

as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To establish a living wage, jobs for all policy for all peoples 

in the United States and its territories, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘A 

5 Living Wage, Jobs For All Act’’. 

6 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents is 

7 as follows: 

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 

Sec. 2. Findings and declaration of policy. 

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Sec. 3. Basic rights and responsibilities. 

Sec. 4. Overall planning for full employment. 

Sec. 5. Joint Economic Committee. 

Sec. 6. Authorization of appropriations. 

1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY. 

2 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: 

3 (1) UNEVEN PROGRESS.—(A) In recent years 

4 the income and wealth gaps among individuals in the 

5 United States have expanded. 

6 (B) Many individuals have become rich or rich7 er, poor individuals have become more numerous, 

8 and many individuals depend on two jobs. 

9 (C) Localized mass depression appears in the 

10 midst of elite opulence, unmet basic needs exist in 

11 the midst of unused labor, and there is massive inse12 curity in the United States despite large-scale mili13 tary spending. 

14 (D) Although unused labor exists in the United 

15 States, unmet basic needs exist in repairing and im16 proving the infrastructure of the Nation, including 

17 private industry, farming, agriculture, public facili18 ties, public utilities, and human services, with special 

19 emphasis on the availability of good and affordable 

20 education, quality child care, health promotion serv21 ices, housing, artistic cultural activities, and basic as 

22 well as applied research and development. 

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1 (E) While some individuals enjoy the best 

2 health services in the world, many other individuals 

3 are without health care or have inadequate or overly 

4 expensive health services. 

5 (F) While many individuals enjoy higher life 

6 and activity expectancy, poor individuals suffer lower 

7 levels of life expectancy and higher levels of infant 

8 mortality and infectious disease, factors that are ag9 gravated by race. 

10 (G) Some individuals live in safe neighborhoods 

11 with good housing and public facilities while many 

12 others live in bad or over-crowded housing in dan13 gerous neighborhoods without adequate recreational, 

14 educational, library, energy, or public transportation 

15 facilities. 

16 (H) Uncounted individuals, including children, 

17 are homeless. 

18 (I) The entire country benefits from the edu19 cation provided by many of the best universities in 

20 the world, while suffering from some of the worst 

21 high school education in the industrial world. 

22 (J) Despite the existence of efficient tech23 nologies for improving the environment, all individ24 uals suffer directly or indirectly from dangerous levmstockstill on PROD1PC66 with BILLS

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1 els of air, water, and soil pollution, and the effects 

2 of global warming, especially agricultural workers. 

3 (K) Despite discrimination against immigrants 

4 and their children, the United States is still the pre5 ferred haven of refuge for victims of oppression in 

6 other countries. 

7 (2) INSECURE PEOPLE.—(A) Although about 

8 10,000,000 new jobs have been created in the 

9 United States economy between 1993 and 1996, 

10 there are nearly 17,000,000 individuals who want 

11 jobs and do not have them or are forced to work 

12 part-time because they cannot find full-time employ13 ment. 

14 (B) Millions of individuals face the threat of 

15 downsizing as the result of mergers, plant closings, 

16 or higher labor productivity. 

17 (C) New jobs increasingly come at lower wage 

18 levels or with few, eroding, or no benefits. 

19 (D) So-called welfare reform is increasing the 

20 number of job-seekers but not the number of living 

21 wage job opportunities. 

22 (3) JOB-BASED MILITARY SPENDING.—(A) Bil23 lions of dollars are being spent annually on military 

24 programs that have been and are justified less by 

25 strategic and tactical military needs than by— 

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1 (i) the jobs they create; and 

2 (ii) the economic health of communities 

3 that have become dependent upon the mainte4 nance or expansion of such programs. 

5 (B) Careful termination of such contracts, with 

6 appropriate protection for workers, contractors, sub7 contractors, and communities could release resources 

8 for activities to meet unmet human needs while ad9 vancing the civilian economy. 

10 (4) ENTITLEMENT CONFUSIONS.—(A)(i) 

11 Among the recipients of corporate welfare, some in12 dividuals have been enlarging their collective entitle13 ments. 

14 (ii) This has been done through tax deductions, 

15 Government guaranteed loans, price supports, mili16 tary contracts and other forms of direct or indirect 

17 subsidy. 

18 (B)(i) Other individuals have swelled personal 

19 entitlements at the expense of taxpayers, share20 holders, employees and local communities. 

21 (ii) This has been done through unprecedented 

22 increases in salaries, stock options, deferred com23 pensation, and other luxurious benefits. 

24 (C) Some beneficiaries of elite entitlements have 

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1 ments of working people, the elderly, racial or ethnic 

2 minorities, the jobless, the homeless, poor people, the 

3 disabled, welfare parents, and immigrants. 

4 (D) Others have been undermining collective 

5 bargaining rights through anti-union propaganda, 

6 trade promotion authority, subcontracting to non7 unionized companies, and plant closings. 

8 (E) Funds now deposited into the Social Secu9 rity Trust Fund are enormously attractive to those 

10 who would like to divert the people’s savings from 

11 secure Government bonds into the risk-laden stock 

12 and bond markets. 

13 (5) DEFECTIVE GROWTH.—(A) Recent eco14 nomic growth has been below the levels needed to 

15 provide decent employment for a larger and more 

16 productive population. 

17 (B) As a result, many individuals have been 

18 forced into jobs that are underpaid, part-time, tem19 porary, irregular, or lacking in health insurance or 

20 other social benefits. 

21 (C) Many face the disappearance of career lad22 ders and an ever-present specter of lay-offs. 

23 (D) Consumer debt and business bankruptcy 

24 have been reaching historic levels. 

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1 (E) These trends have created deeper and 

2 longer term poverty or insecurity, with the con3 sequent loss of personal dignity and self-respect. 

4 (F) Among the more obvious symptoms are the 

5 fostering of mental depression, family breakdown, 

6 child or spousal abuse, and illegal forms of income. 

7 (G) Lesser known symptoms have been the in8 crease in the prison population, the exploitation of 

9 prison labor, the spread of new hate groups, church 

10 bombings, homophobia, and unregulated armed mili11 tias. 

12 (H) As a result, an insecurity plague unravels 

13 the social fabric of United States society. 

14 (6) MISLEADING INFORMATION.—(A) While 

15 most individuals are flooded by information over16 loads, much of the information they receive consists 

17 of oversimplifications, misinformation or 

18 disinformation. 

19 (B) By themselves, aggregate measures of na20 tional output or income neglect their disaggregated 

21 components, overemphasize monetary data, ignore 

22 the entire world of unpaid volunteer and household 

23 elderly and healthcare services and care for children. 

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1 (C) Their use tends to nurture the misleading 

2 idea that human progress or regress can be rep3 resented by a single overall measurement. 

4 (D) Statistical data on employment, unemploy5 ment, prices, education, crime, and health are often 

6 based on outmoded concepts that have not been 

7 adapted to changing conditions or new capabilities 

8 for information collection, processing, and distribu9 tion. 

10 (E) Many people misuse averages and other 

11 measures of central tendency without attention to 

12 frequency distributions and other measures of dis13 persion. The use of a single measure of consumer 

14 prices and inflation ignores the long-established fact 

15 that poor individuals pay more. 

16 (7) LOST LEGACIES.—(A) Few people now re17 member, and many young people never learned, how 

18 President Franklin D. Roosevelt started planning for 

19 conversion from war to peace by proclaiming a ‘‘sec20 ond Bill of Rights’’. 

21 (B) The first principle in this long-forgotten 

22 document was ‘‘the right to a useful and remunera23 tive job in the industries or shops or farms or mines 

24 of the Nation’’. 

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1 (C) This right was backed up with seven other 

2 human rights: adequate income, adequate medical 

3 care, family farming, freedom from monopolies, de4 cent housing, Social Security, and a good education. 

5 (D) These ideals led to law-based entitlements 

6 that nurtured high wages, a successful Social Secu7 rity system, unemployment insurance, other social 

8 benefits, collective bargaining, higher productivity 

9 and the rising purchasing power needed for private 

10 enterprises to earn profits without Government sub11 sidy. 

12 (8) LIMITATIONS IN MAINSTREAM DIS13 COURSE.—(A) During World War II and the subse14 quent conversion from war to peace, the idea of full 

15 employment was widely held. 

16 (B) The United States made a commitment to 

17 promote full employment when it ratified the United 

18 Nations Charter, including a commitment to adhere 

19 to articles 55(a) and 56 of that treaty. 

20 (C) More recently, the full employment ideal 

21 has been mistakenly defined as a high level of un22 used labor or regarded as impossible without exces23 sive deficits, inflation or regulations. 

24 (D) Discussion of full employment has thus be25 come taboo in mainstream discourse. 

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1 (E) Something similar has happened with the 

2 ideal of decent job opportunities as a human right. 

3 (F) In earlier decades this ideal was supported 

4 by most religious leaders and articulated, under 

5 United States leadership, in the United Nations 

6 Charter and in other United Nations treaties and 

7 declarations. 

8 (G) More recently, the idea of full employment 

9 has also become taboo in mainstream economic dis10 course. 

11 (9) GLOBALIZATION.—(A) Transnational cor12 porations have evolved into giant global institutions 

13 that control much of the world’s information, assets 

14 and money, while often undermining, if not entirely 

15 escaping, national and international defenses against 

16 the violation of the right to dignity and all basic 

17 human rights and responsibilities. 

18 (B) One-third of world trade is transactions 

19 among the various units or sub-units of the same or20 ganization. 

21 (C) An excessive amount of global financial 

22 transactions consists of speculative operations that 

23 create no new wealth and thereby divert resources 

24 from productive use. 

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1 (b) DECLARATION OF POLICY.—To help promote the 

2 general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to our3 selves and our posterity, the Congress hereby declares the 

4 following to be the policy of the Federal Government: 

5 (1) REAFFIRMING BASIC RIGHTS.—To reaffirm 

6 to public discourse the human rights proclaimed by 

7 President Roosevelt more than half a century earlier, 

8 express them in terms that have been developed in 

9 more recent years and, as part of the bridges to the 

10 twenty-first century, affirm basic rights regarding 

11 dignity, personal security, collective bargaining, the 

12 environment, information, and voting. 

13 (2) MORE EMPHASIS ON BASIC RESPONSIBIL14 ITIES.—(A) To help root these ideals of living wage 

15 jobs for all individuals in explicit recognition of per16 sonal, corporate, and Federal responsibilities. 

17 (B) These include the continuing responsibility 

18 of government of the following: 

19 (i) To protect the rights of individuals. 

20 (ii) To nurture healthy partnerships among 

21 Federal, State, county, and local government 

22 agencies, and between government agencies and 

23 such private sectors as nonprofit enterprises, 

24 labor unions, trade or fraternal associations, re25 ligious groups, and cooperatives. 

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1 (iii) To update and continuously improve 

2 such fundamental laws and procedures as are 

3 required for the protection of private property, 

4 the functioning of public utilities, competitive 

5 markets, and such limitations on market activi6 ties as are necessary to promote the common 

7 good by protecting employees, consumers, and 

8 the environment. 

9 (3) OVERALL DEMOCRATIC PLANNING.—To 

10 mandate under law an overall planning process of 

11 legislative and executive action to help provide the 

12 essential remedies and resources needed to attain 

13 and maintain conditions under which all Americans 

14 may freely fulfill basic human rights and responsibil15 ities, including the right to dignity and to help re16 duce poverty, inequality, and the concentrations of 

17 economic and political power. 

18 (4) CONGRESSIONAL MONITORING AND INITIA19 TIVES.—To strengthen the constitutional checks and 

20 balances by providing continual congressional moni21 toring of the overall planning process through the 

22 activities of the Joint Economic Committee and the 

23 requirement of open debate and voting on the An24 nual Economic Policy Resolution. 

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1 (5) COOPERATIVE INTERNATIONAL LEADER2 SHIP.—To work with individuals and governments of 

3 other nations and the United Nations and its organs 

4 and specialized agencies in providing leadership for 

5 supporting basic human rights and responsibilities 

6 through the provision of sufficient remedies and re7 sources. 

8 SEC. 3. BASIC RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. 

9 (a) UPDATING THE 1944 ECONOMIC BILL OF

10 RIGHTS.—The Congress reaffirms the responsibility of the 

11 Federal Government to implement and, in accordance with 

12 current and foreseeable trends, update the statement by 

13 President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union 

14 message of January 11, 1944. The Congress therefore 

15 proclaims the following rights as continuing goals of 

16 United States public policy: 

17 (1) DECENT JOBS.—(A) The right of every 

18 adult American to earn decent real wages, to a free 

19 choice among opportunities for useful and productive 

20 paid employment, or for self-employment. The right 

21 of every child not to have to work during school 

22 hours. 

23 (B) With more full employment at living wages, 

24 the economy will be more productive, attain higher 

25 levels of responsible and sustainable growth and promstockstill on PROD1PC66 with BILLS

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1 vide more Federal revenues even without desirable 

2 changes in existing tax laws. 

3 (2) INCOME SECURITY FOR INDIVIDUALS UN4 ABLE TO WORK FOR PAY.—(A) Notwithstanding any 

5 other provision of law, the right of every adult 

6 American truly unable to work for pay to an ade7 quate standard of living that rises with increases in 

8 the wealth and productivity of the society. 

9 (B) With more full employment at living wages, 

10 more individuals will be able to earn a decent living 

11 without the help of welfare benefits or other transfer 

12 payments. 

13 (3) FAMILY FARMING.—(A) The right of every 

14 farm family to raise and sell its products at a return 

15 which will give it a decent living through the produc16 tion of useful food, with staged incentives for conver17 sion from unhealthy to healthier food or other prod18 ucts, with special attention to production processes 

19 that conserve soil, water, and energy and reduce pol20 lution. 

21 (B) With more full employment at living wages, 

22 the market for farm output will be enlarged, with 

23 less need for controls over output, or Federal, State, 

24 or local support prices or subsidies. 

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1 (4) FREEDOM FROM MONOPOLIES.—(A) The 

2 right of every business enterprise, large and small, 

3 to operate in freedom from domination by domestic 

4 and foreign monopolies and cartels, and from 

5 threats of undesirable mergers or leveraged buy6 outs, and the right of consumers to obtain goods and 

7 services at prices that are not determined by monop8 olies, cartels, and price leadership. 

9 (B) With more full employment at living wages, 

10 more business enterprises will be able to earn profits 

11 without monopolistic controls or government welfare 

12 and consumers will be able to enjoy lower prices. 

13 (5) DECENT HOUSING.—(A) The right of every 

14 American to decent, safe, and sanitary housing, pub15 lic utilities, and community facilities, with adequate 

16 maintenance and weatherization, including large17 scale rehabilitation of millions of existing buildings, 

18 thereby helping to reduce overcrowding and energy 

19 loss and the need to build new roads, power plants, 

20 storm sewers, sewage, and refuse disposal. 

21 (B) With more full employment at living wages 

22 more people will be able afford adequate housing 

23 with less government subsidy. 

24 (6) ADEQUATE HEALTH SERVICES.—(A) The 

25 right of every American to such widely available 

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1 health services as may be necessary to promote 

2 wellness, extend both life expectancy and activity ex3 pectancy, and reduce mortality and disability 

4 through such non-contagious afflictions as cancer, 

5 heart disease, stroke, infant mortality, high blood 

6 pressure and obesity, and reduce the incidence of 

7 contagious diseases. 

8 (B) With more full employment at living wages, 

9 more tax revenues will be available to help finance 

10 expanded health services for a larger and older pop11 ulation. 

12 (7) SOCIAL SECURITY.—(A) The right to ade13 quate protection from the economic fears of old age, 

14 disability, sickness, accident, and unemployment. 

15 (B) With more full employment at living wages 

16 and higher levels of responsible growth, more tax 

17 revenues will be available to help finance Social Se18 curity, medicare, medicaid, unemployment com19 pensation, and welfare payments. 

20 (8) EDUCATION AND WORK TRAINING.—(A) 

21 Every individual has a right to opportunities for con22 tinuous learning through free public education, from 

23 pre-kindergarten and kindergarten through postsec24 ondary levels. 

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1 (B) With more full employment at living wages, 

2 more local, State and Federal revenues will be avail3 able to help support education and continuous learn4 ing. 

5 (b) EXTENDING THE 1944 ECONOMIC BILL OF

6 RIGHTS.—The Congress proclaims the following addi7 tional rights as continuing goals of United States public 

8 policy: 

9 (1) PERSONAL SECURITY.—The right of every 

10 American to personal security against any form of 

11 violence, whether in the home, in the workplace, on 

12 the streets and highways, in the community or the 

13 nation. 

14 (2) EMPLOYEE ORGANIZING AND COLLECTIVE

15 BARGAINING.—Notwithstanding any other provision 

16 of law, the right of all employees to organize and 

17 bargain collectively, to withhold from any form of 

18 work or purchasing when necessary to protect such 

19 rights, and to receive full diplomatic, economic, and 

20 other support from the Federal Government in help21 ing make this right effective in other countries and 

22 eliminating policies or activities that undermine such 

23 rights. 

24 (3) SAFE ENVIRONMENTS.—The right of every 

25 American to unpolluted breathable air, to potable 

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1 water available through a reliable and safe water 

2 supply, to safety from hazardous materials and en3 ergy blackouts, and to such international protections 

4 as may be needed to facilitate living and working in 

5 a safe and sustainable physical environment. 

6 (4) INFORMATION.—The right of every Amer7 ican to currently available and fully explained infor8 mation on recent and foreseeable trends with respect 

9 to sources of pollution and on products and proc10 esses that threaten the health or life of individuals 

11 and on employment, unemployment, underemploy12 ment, economic insecurity, poverty, and the distribu13 tion of wealth and income, with detailed attention to 

14 various groups in the population and broader pano15 ramic attention to such matters in each region of the 

16 world. 

17 (5) VOTING.—The right of every American to 

18 vote and to seek nomination or election without hav19 ing that right debased by the domination of electoral 

20 campaigns by large-scale private financing of cam21 paign operations or by the scheduling of elections 

22 during weekdays or by unequal voting machines and 

23 processes, or in other manners that may interfere 

24 with regular working hours. 

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1 (c) PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.—The Congress 

2 hereby recognizes that every person benefiting from the 

3 rights set forth in subsections (a) and (b) has a personal 

4 responsibility to promote her or his health and wellbeing, 

5 rather than relying exclusively on health services by oth6 ers, to provide for appropriate care to the best of their 

7 abilities of children and elderly parents, to protect the en8 vironment, to work productively, to vote, to involve herself 

9 or himself in public concerns and in ongoing education and 

10 training, to speak out against corruption or injustice, and 

11 to cooperate with others in promoting the nonviolent han12 dling of inevitable conflicts in the household, the work13 place, the community and elsewhere. 

14 (d) CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY.— 

15 (1) REPORTS TO THE SECURITIES AND EX16 CHANGE COMMISSION.—To help implement the rec17 ognition of the most responsible corporations and 

18 encourage more responsible behavior by other cor19 porations, each corporation registered with the Secu20 rities and Exchange Commission shall include in the 

21 annual reports filed with the Commission a full and 

22 fair disclosure of information regarding the impact 

23 of their activities in the United States and other 

24 countries on environmental quality, on child labor, 

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1 and on the rights of other stakeholders, including 

2 employees, consumers, and communities. 

3 (2) REPORTS BY STATE-CHARTERED CORPORA4 TIONS.—To help implement the recognition of the 

5 most responsible corporations and encourage move6 ment in this direction by other corporations, a State 

7 shall not be entitled to receive any Federal grants or 

8 enter into any Federal contracts unless the State 

9 has initiated a time-phased program to require that 

10 all State-chartered corporations submit annual re11 ports that include full and fair disclosure of informa12 tion regarding the impact of their activities in this 

13 or other countries on environmental quality, on child 

14 labor, and on the rights of other stakeholders, in15 cluding employees, consumers, and communities. 

16 (3) RECOGNITION OF MOST RESPONSIBLE COR17 PORATIONS.—Because some profit-seeking corpora18 tions have managed their enterprises with recogni19 tion not only of the rights of stockholders and chief 

20 executives, but also with responsible action toward 

21 environmental quality and the rights of other stake22 holders, including employees, consumers, and com23 munities, the Secretary of Labor, in cooperation 

24 with the Director of the Environmental Protection 

25 Agency, shall identify those corporations that have 

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1 gone the furthest in exercising such responsibilities 

2 and recommend to the President a special annual 

3 award to those chief executives and boards of direc4 tors that have made the greatest progress in this di5 rection. 

6 (4) COMPUTER REGISTRATION OF CORPORATE

7 CRIMES.— 

8 (A) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, 

9 with the assistance of business leaders and or10 ganizations, shall establish an ongoing comput11 erized registration program of all corporations 

12 that are found guilty of violating a Federal or 

13 State law. The register shall set forth— 

14 (i) the nature of each violation; 

15 (ii) the names of the members of the 

16 board and principal officers of the corpora17 tion at the time of the violation; 

18 (iii) the penalties imposed; and 

19 (iv) the extent to which penalties were 

20 reduced or avoided by consent decrees, plea 

21 bargains, and no contest pleas or tax de22 ductions. 

23 (B) REGISTRATION NONCOMPLIANCE.—In 

24 the absence of clear and convincing evidence of 

25 rehabilitation, the President may deny Federal 

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1 contracts, loans, or loan guarantees to corpora2 tions that fail to comply with this section. 

3 (e) RESPONSIBILITY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.— 

4 (1) POSITIVE RESPONSIBILITIES.—Each Fed5 eral agency and commission, including the Board of 

6 Governors of the Federal Reserve System, has the 

7 responsibility to plan and carry out its policies, pro8 grams, projects, and budgets in a manner designed 

9 to help establish and maintain conditions under 

10 which all Americans may freely exercise the respon11 sibilities and rights recognized in this Act. 

12 (2) PROHIBITION.—Each such Federal agency 

13 or commission shall not directly or indirectly pro14 mote economic recession, stagnation, or unemploy15 ment as a means of reducing wages, salaries, or in16 flation. 

17 SEC. 4. OVERALL PLANNING FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT. 

18 (a) GOALS.—As a part of the annual submission of 

19 the budget of the United States Government for the fol20 lowing fiscal year pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, 

21 United States Code, the President shall establish a frame22 work for such budget that meets the following goals: 

23 (1) QUALITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT.— 

24 The goal of improving the quality of life and envi25 ronmental conditions in the United States by the 

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1 first decade of the 21st century, including estab2 lishing and maintaining conditions under which the 

3 rights and responsibilities recognized in section 3 

4 may be fully exercised. 

5 (2) GOALS FOR RESPONSIBLE AND SUSTAIN6 ABLE GROWTH.—The goal of responsible and sus7 tainable annual growth of at least 3 percent, after 

8 correction for price changes, in gross domestic out9 put. 

10 (3) REDUCING OFFICIALLY MEASURED UNEM11 PLOYMENT.—The goal of reducing officially meas12 ured unemployment to the interim goal of at least 

13 3 percent for individuals who have attained the age 

14 of 20 and at least 4 percent for individuals who have 

15 attained the age of 16 but have not attained the age 

16 of 20, as set forth in the Full Employment and Bal17 anced Growth Act of 1978. 

18 (4) SUPPORTING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN

19 RIGHTS DECLARATIONS.—The goal of implementing 

20 the commitments set forth in the Employment Act 

21 of 1946, the Full Employment and Balanced Growth 

22 Act of 1978, and in treaties ratified by the United 

23 States, including the Charter of the United Nations, 

24 the Charter of the Organization of American States, 

25 the International Covenant on Civil and Political 

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1 Rights, the International Convention on the Elimi2 nation of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the 

3 International Convention Against Torture and other 

4 Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punish5 ment, including the Federal and State reporting re6 quirements, and in treaties signed but not yet rati7 fied by the United States, including the Inter8 national Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural 

9 Rights, the International Convention for the Elimi10 nation of All Forms of Discrimination of Women, 

11 and the International Convention on the Rights of 

12 the Child, and in the Universal Declaration of 

13 Human Rights, which is a part of customary inter14 national law. 

15 (b) A FULL EMPLOYMENT MINIMUM.—The frame16 work for the annual budget established under subsection 

17 (a) shall also include, as a basic minimum of activities 

18 needed to achieve conditions under which Americans may 

19 better fulfill basic human rights and responsibilities, spe20 cific legislative proposals, budgets, and executive policies 

21 and initiatives such as the following: 

22 (1) CONVERSION FROM MILITARY TO CIVILIAN

23 ECONOMY.—The establishment of the following: 

24 (A) The establishment of a conversion 

25 planning fund, to be administered under the 

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1 guidance of the Secretary of Defense, the Sec2 retary of Labor, and the Secretary of Com3 merce, to include not less than 1 percent of the 

4 amount appropriated for military purposes dur5 ing each subsequent year for the purpose of 

6 promoting and activating short- and long-term 

7 plans for coping with declines in military activi8 ties by developing specific policies, programs 

9 and projects (including feasibility studies, edu10 cation, training and inducements for whatever 

11 increased labor mobility may be necessary) for 

12 the expansion of economic activates in non-mili13 tary sectors. 

14 (B) The recognition of the right of all 

15 businesses with terminated military contracts to 

16 fair reimbursement for the work already com17 pleted by such businesses, including quick ad18 vance payments on initial claims, adequate ter19 mination payments for released employees, and 

20 conversion assistance for communities pre21 viously dependent on such contracts. 

22 (2) TRUTH IN BUDGETS.—The establishment of 

23 policies and initiatives that— 

24 (A) make distinctions between operating 

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1 larly appear in the budgets of business organi2 zations and State and local governments; 

3 (B) present outlays of the military in 

4 terms not only of Department of Defense out5 lays but also of all other forms of military re6 lated spending; 

7 (C) provide for the development of a tax 

8 expenditure budget, as defined in the Congres9 sional Budget Act of 1974, that is presented 

10 not only in a separately published special anal11 ysis but also incorporated into the general rev12 enue provisions of the budget and accompanied 

13 by estimates of the benefits sought and thus far 

14 obtained by such planned losses of tax revenue; 

15 and 

16 (D) express any debt and deficit data in 

17 constant as well as current United States dol18 lars. 

19 (3) IMPROVED INDICATORS OF PROGRESS AND

20 REGRESS.—(A) The establishment of procedures for 

21 the collecting, processing, and making publicly avail22 able improved indicators of recent, current and fore23 seeable trends with respect to— 

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1 (i) health, life expectancy, activity expect2 ancy, morbidity and disability in the United 

3 States; 

4 (ii) employment, unemployment, under5 employment, and economic insecurity data; 

6 (iii) indices of job security, family security, 

7 and the ratio of job applicants to job openings 

8 in the United States; 

9 (iv) poverty in the sense of both absolute 

10 deprivation and relative deprivation; 

11 (v) the distribution of wealth and income 

12 in the United States; 

13 (vi) the sources of pollution, products and 

14 processes that threaten the health or life of peo15 ple in the United States; and 

16 (vii) the kinds, quantity, and quality of un17 paid services in homes, households, and neigh18 borhoods, including volunteer activities. 

19 (B) In establishing the procedures under sub20 paragraph (A), emphasis shall be placed on distin21 guishing among the various groups in the population 

22 of the United States and on trends with respect to 

23 such matters in other countries. 

24 (4) ANTI-INFLATION POLICIES.—The establish25 ment of policies and initiatives for preventing or conmstockstill on PROD1PC66 with BILLS

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1 trolling inflationary tendencies through a full battery 

2 of standby policies, including public controls over 

3 price fixing through monopolistic practices or re4 straint of trade, the promotion of competition and 

5 productivity, and wage-price policies arrived at 

6 through tripartite business-labor-government co7 operation. 

8 (5) LOWER REAL INTEREST RATES.—The es9 tablishment of policies and initiatives to enlarge em10 ployment opportunities through reductions in real 

11 interest rates. 

12 (6) PUBLIC WORKS AND SERVICES.—The estab13 lishment of policies and initiatives for including pro14 visions in Federal grant programs and other assist15 ance programs to encourage the planning and fulfill16 ment of public works and public services planning by 

17 town, city, county and State governments projects— 

18 (A) to improve the quality of life for all 

19 people in the area; 

20 (B) to renovate, and to the extent desir21 able, enlarge the decaying infrastructure of 

22 public facilities and services required for pro23 ductive, efficient, and sustainable enterprise; 

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1 (C) to utilize the wasted labor power, and 

2 nurture the creative energies of, those suffering 

3 from joblessness and poverty; and 

4 (D) to have contracts awarded competi5 tively to smaller as well as larger business en6 terprises or such other private sector units as 

7 non-profit enterprises, labor unions, coopera8 tives, neighborhood corporations or other vol9 untary associations. 

10 (7) INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY.—The 

11 establishment of policies and initiatives to make any 

12 future financial support for the International Mone13 tary Fund and the International Bank for Recon14 struction and Development to be conditioned on de15 velopment and implementation of certain policies 

16 and procedures by such institutions, including the 

17 protection of the rights of women and children, con18 cern for the environment, employees’ right to orga19 nize and to work in safe and healthy conditions as 

20 will help raise the living standards of those people 

21 with the lowest levels of income and wealth, thereby 

22 promoting such higher levels of wages and salaries 

23 in such countries as will provide larger markets for 

24 their own industries and for imports of goods and 

25 services from the United States. 

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1 (8) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON UNEM2 PLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT.—The estab3 lishment of policies and initiatives— 

4 (A) to begin working toward the prompt 

5 initiation of a series of international and re6 gional conferences through the United Nations 

7 and International Labor Organization on alter8 native methods of reducing involuntary unem9 ployment, underemployment, and poverty; and 

10 (B) to organize, through the Department 

11 of Labor, planning seminars and other sessions 

12 in preparation for a worldwide conference and 

13 convention of independent labor unions. 

14 (9) REDUCTIONS IN HOURS.—The establish15 ment of policies and initiatives to provide for 

16 phased-in actions for reductions in the length of the 

17 work year through longer paid vacations, the prohi18 bition on compulsory return to work of new mothers 

19 before six months maternity leave, the elimination of 

20 compulsory overtime, curbing excessive overtime 

21 through an increase in the premium to triple time on 

22 all hours in excess of 40 hours in any week, exempt23 ing administrative, executive, and professional em24 ployees from the overtime premium only if their sal25 ary levels are three times the annual value of the 

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1 minimum wage, reducing the average work week in 

2 manufacturing and mining to no more than 35 

3 hours without any corresponding loss in weekly 

4 wages, and voluntary work-sharing arrangements. 

5 (10) PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT WITH SOCIAL

6 BENEFITS.—The establishment of policies and initia7 tives to increase the opportunities for freely-chosen 

8 part-time employment, with social security and 

9 health benefits, to meet the needs of older people, 

10 students, individuals with disabilities, and individ11 uals with housekeeping, child care, and family care 

12 responsibilities. 

13 (11) INSURANCE PROTECTION FOR PENSION

14 FUND INVESTMENTS.—The establishment of policies 

15 and initiatives to encourage more private and public 

16 investment in those areas of localized depression in 

17 which people suffer from massive joblessness, over18 crowded schools, overcrowded housing, inadequate li19 brary and transportation facilities, violence and so20 cial breakdown by— 

21 (A) promoting comprehensive plans for 

22 raising the quality of life through expanded 

23 small business activity, middle income housing 

24 (including rehabilitation) and improvements in 

25 private and public infrastructure; 

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1 (B) encouraging private, Federal, State 

2 and local pension funds to invest a substantial 

3 portion of their resources in projects approved 

4 in accordance with such plans; and 

5 (C) protecting the beneficiaries of such 

6 funds by whatever insurance guarantees may be 

7 needed to eliminate the risks involved by enter8 ing areas not normally regarded as profitable 

9 by banks and other investors. 

10 (12) OTHER MATTERS.—The establishment of 

11 policies and initiatives to present and continuously 

12 adjust proposals, budgets and executive policies and 

13 initiatives on taxation, Social Security, health care, 

14 child care, public education, training and retraining, 

15 the arts and humanities, basic and applied science, 

16 housing, public transportation, public utilities, mili17 tary conversion, environmental protection, anti-rac18 ism, agriculture, enforcement of anti-monopoly laws, 

19 public financing of election campaigns, crime preven20 tion, punishment and rehabilitation, and such other 

21 matters as may be necessary to fulfill the objectives 

22 of this Act. 

23 SEC. 5. JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE. 

24 (a) MONITORING OF ACTIONS UNDER THIS ACT.— 

25 In addition to its responsibilities under the Employment 

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1 Act of 1946, the Joint Economic Committee shall monitor 

2 all actions taken or proposed to be taken to carry out the 

3 purposes under this Act. 

4 (b) REPORT.—The Joint Economic Committee shall 

5 prepare and submit to the Congress, and publish in the 

6 Federal Register, an annual report containing a summary 

7 of the findings of the Committee with respect to the ac8 tions monitored under subsection (a) for the preceding 

9 year, with special attention to the extent to which the 

10 President and Federal agencies have faithfully executed 

11 or may have failed to faithfully execute the provisions of 

12 this Act and fulfill their obligations under international 

13 covenants and conventions requiring periodic reporting to 

14 United Nations committees. 

15 (c) CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON ECONOMIC POL16 ICY.—Not later than July 1 of each year the Joint Eco17 nomic Committee shall submit to the Senate and the 

18 House of Representatives a Concurrent Resolution on 

19 Economic Policy setting forth both in aggregate terms and 

20 in detail its proposed goals for employment by type of em21 ployment, with special attention to hours, wages, and so22 cial benefits, and for reducing unemployment, under23 employment, and poverty in urban, suburban and rural 

24 areas. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, these 

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1 goals shall serve as the framework for any concurrent res2 olutions on the Federal budget. 

3 SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

4 There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such 

5 sums as may be necessary for operating and investment 

6 expenses to implement the policies, programs and projects 

7 set forth in accordance with this Act. 

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