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(B) With more full employment at living wages, 
more local, State and Federal revenues will be avail-
able to help support education and continuous learn-
ing. 
(b) EXTENDING
THE 1944 ECONOMIC BILL
OF 
RIGHTS.—The Congress proclaims the following addi-
tional rights as continuing goals of United States public 
policy: 
(1) PERSONAL SECURITY.—The right of every 
American to personal security against any form of 
violence, whether in the home, in the workplace, on 
the streets and highways, in the community or the 
nation. 
(2) EMPLOYEE ORGANIZING AND COLLECTIVE 
BARGAINING.—Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the right of all employees to organize and 
bargain collectively, to withhold from any form of 
work or purchasing when necessary to protect such 
rights, and to receive full diplomatic, economic, and 
other support from the Federal Government in help-
ing make this right effective in other countries and 
eliminating policies or activities that undermine such 
rights. 
(3) SAFE ENVIRONMENTS.—The right of every 
American to unpolluted breathable air, to potable 
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water available through a reliable and safe water 
supply, to safety from hazardous materials and en-
ergy blackouts, and to such international protections 
as may be needed to facilitate living and working in 
a safe and sustainable physical environment. 
(4) INFORMATION.—The right of every Amer-
ican to currently available and fully explained infor-
mation on recent and foreseeable trends with respect 
to sources of pollution and on products and proc-
esses that threaten the health or life of individuals 
and on employment, unemployment, underemploy-
ment, economic insecurity, poverty, and the distribu-
tion of wealth and income, with detailed attention to 
various groups in the population and broader pano-
ramic attention to such matters in each region of the 
world. 
(5) VOTING.—The right of every American to 
vote and to seek nomination or election without hav-
ing that right debased by the domination of electoral 
campaigns by large-scale private financing of cam-
paign operations or by the scheduling of elections 
during weekdays or by unequal voting machines and 
processes, or in other manners that may interfere 
with regular working hours. 
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(c) PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY.—The Congress 
hereby recognizes that every person benefiting from the 
rights set forth in subsections (a) and (b) has a personal 
responsibility to promote her or his health and wellbeing, 
rather than relying exclusively on health services by oth-
ers, to provide for appropriate care to the best of their 
abilities of children and elderly parents, to protect the en-
vironment, to work productively, to vote, to involve herself 
or himself in public concerns and in ongoing education and 
training, to speak out against corruption or injustice, and 
to cooperate with others in promoting the nonviolent han-
dling of inevitable conflicts in the household, the work-
place, the community and elsewhere. 
(d) CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY.— 
(1) REPORTS
TO
THE
SECURITIES
AND
EX-
CHANGE COMMISSION.—To help implement the rec-
ognition of the most responsible corporations and 
encourage more responsible behavior by other cor-
porations, each corporation registered with the Secu-
rities and Exchange Commission shall include in the 
annual reports filed with the Commission a full and 
fair disclosure of information regarding the impact 
of their activities in the United States and other 
countries on environmental quality, on child labor, 
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