Rights, the International Convention on the Elimi-
nation of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the 
International Convention Against Torture and other 
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punish-
ment, including the Federal and State reporting re-
quirements, and in treaties signed but not yet rati-
fied by the United States, including the Inter-
national Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural 
Rights, the International Convention for the Elimi-
nation of All Forms of Discrimination of Women, 
and the International Convention on the Rights of 
the Child, and in the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights, which is a part of customary inter-
national law. 
(b) A FULL EMPLOYMENT MINIMUM.—The frame-
work for the annual budget established under subsection 
(a) shall also include, as a basic minimum of activities 
needed to achieve conditions under which Americans may 
better fulfill basic human rights and responsibilities, spe-
cific legislative proposals, budgets, and executive policies 
and initiatives such as the following: 
(1) CONVERSION FROM MILITARY TO CIVILIAN 
ECONOMY.—The establishment of the following: 
(A) The establishment of a conversion 
planning fund, to be administered under the
guidance of the Secretary of Defense, the Sec-
retary of Labor, and the Secretary of Com-
merce, to include not less than 1 percent of the 
amount appropriated for military purposes dur-
ing each subsequent year for the purpose of 
promoting and activating short- and long-term 
plans for coping with declines in military activi-
ties by developing specific policies, programs 
and projects (including feasibility studies, edu-
cation, training and inducements for whatever 
increased labor mobility may be necessary) for 
the expansion of economic activates in non-mili-
tary sectors. 
(B) The recognition of the right of all 
businesses with terminated military contracts to 
fair reimbursement for the work already com-
pleted by such businesses, including quick ad-
vance payments on initial claims, adequate ter-
mination payments for released employees, and 
conversion assistance for communities pre-
viously dependent on such contracts. 
(2) TRUTH IN BUDGETS.—The establishment of 
policies and initiatives that— 
(A) make distinctions between operating 
and investment outlays as such outlays regu-
larly appear in the budgets of business organi-
zations and State and local governments; 
(B) present outlays of the military in 
terms not only of Department of Defense out-
lays but also of all other forms of military re-
lated spending; 
(C) provide for the development of a tax 
expenditure budget, as defined in the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, that is presented 
not only in a separately published special anal-
ysis but also incorporated into the general rev-
enue provisions of the budget and accompanied 
by estimates of the benefits sought and thus far 
obtained by such planned losses of tax revenue; 
and 
(D) express any debt and deficit data in 
constant as well as current United States dol-
lars. 
(3) IMPROVED INDICATORS OF PROGRESS AND 
REGRESS.—(A) The establishment of procedures for 
the collecting, processing, and making publicly avail-
able improved indicators of recent, current and fore-
seeable trends with respect to—
(i) health, life expectancy, activity expect-
ancy, morbidity and disability in the United 
States; 
(ii) employment, unemployment, under-
employment, and economic insecurity data; 
(iii) indices of job security, family security, 
and the ratio of job applicants to job openings 
in the United States; 
(iv) poverty in the sense of both absolute 
deprivation and relative deprivation; 
(v) the distribution of wealth and income 
in the United States; 
(vi) the sources of pollution, products and 
processes that threaten the health or life of peo-
ple in the United States; and 
(vii) the kinds, quantity, and quality of un-
paid services in homes, households, and neigh-
borhoods, including volunteer activities. 
(B) In establishing the procedures under sub-
paragraph (A), emphasis shall be placed on distin-
guishing among the various groups in the population 
of the United States and on trends with respect to 
such matters in other countries. 
(4) ANTI-INFLATION POLICIES.—The establish-
ment of policies and initiatives for preventing or con-
trolling inflationary tendencies through a full battery 
of standby policies, including public controls over 
price fixing through monopolistic practices or re-
straint of trade, the promotion of competition and 
productivity, and wage-price policies arrived at 
through tripartite business-labor-government co-
operation. 
(5) LOWER REAL INTEREST RATES.—The es-
tablishment of policies and initiatives to enlarge em-
ployment opportunities through reductions in real 
interest rates. 
(6) PUBLIC WORKS AND SERVICES.—The estab-
lishment of policies and initiatives for including pro-
visions in Federal grant programs and other assist-
ance programs to encourage the planning and fulfill-
ment of public works and public services planning by 
town, city, county and State governments projects— 
(A) to improve the quality of life for all 
people in the area; 
(B) to renovate, and to the extent desir-
able, enlarge the decaying infrastructure of 
public facilities and services required for pro-
ductive, efficient, and profitable enterprise;