I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1040
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 27, 2003
Ms. LEE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce, 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 provi-
sions 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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘A 
Living Wage, Jobs For All Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents is 
as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings and declaration of policy.
Sec. 3. Basic rights and responsibilities. 
Sec. 4. Overall planning for full employment. 
Sec. 5. Joint Economic Committee. 
Sec. 6. Authorization of appropriations.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: 
(1) UNEVEN PROGRESS.—(A) In recent years 
the income and wealth gaps among individuals in the 
United States have expanded. 
(B) Many individuals have become rich or rich-
er, poor individuals have become more numerous, 
and many individuals depend on two jobs. 
(C) Localized mass depression appears in the 
midst of elite opulence, unmet basic needs exist in 
the midst of unused labor, and there is massive inse-
curity in the United States despite large-scale mili-
tary spending. 
(D) Although unused labor exists in the United 
States, unmet basic needs exist in repairing and im-
proving the infrastructure of the Nation, including 
private industry, farming, agriculture, public facili-
ties, public utilities, and human services, with special 
emphasis on the availability of good and affordable 
education, quality child care, health promotion serv-
ices, housing, artistic cultural activities, and basic as 
well as applied research and development.
(E) While some individuals enjoy the best 
health services in the world, many other individuals 
are without health care or have inadequate or overly 
expensive health services. 
(F) While many individuals enjoy higher life 
and activity expectancy, poor individuals suffer lower 
levels of life expectancy and higher levels of infant 
mortality and infectious disease, factors that are ag-
gravated by race. 
(G) Some individuals live in safe neighborhoods 
with good housing and public facilities while many 
others live in bad or over-crowded housing in dan-
gerous neighborhoods without adequate recreational, 
educational, library, energy, or public transportation 
facilities. 
(H) Uncounted individuals, including children, 
are homeless. 
(I) The entire country benefits from the edu-
cation provided by many of the best universities in 
the world, while suffering from some of the worst 
high school education in the industrial world. 
(J) Despite the existence of efficient tech-
nologies for improving the environment, all individ-
uals suffer directly or indirectly from dangerous lev-
els of air, water, and soil pollution, especially agri-
cultural workers. 
(K) Despite discrimination against immigrants 
and their children, the United States is still the pre-
ferred haven of refuge for victims of oppression in 
other countries. 
(2) INSECURE
PEOPLE.—(A) Although about 
10,000,000 new jobs have been created in the 
United States economy between 1993 and 1996, 
there are nearly 17,000,000 individuals who want 
jobs and do not have them or are forced to work 
part-time because they cannot find full-time employ-
ment. 
(B) Millions of individuals face the threat of 
downsizing as the result of mergers, plant closings, 
or higher labor productivity. 
(C) New jobs increasingly come at lower wage 
levels or with few, eroding, or no benefits.
(D) So-called welfare reform is increasing the 
number of job-seekers but not the number of living 
wage job opportunities.
(3) JOB-BASED MILITARY SPENDING.—(A) Bil-
lions of dollars are being spent annually on military 
programs that have been and are justified less by 
strategic and tactical military needs than by—
(i) the jobs they create; and 
(ii) the economic health of communities 
that have become dependent upon the mainte-
nance or expansion of such programs. 
(B) Careful termination of such contracts, with 
appropriate protection for workers, contractors, sub-
contractors, and communities could release resources 
for activities to meet unmet human needs while ad-
vancing the civilian economy. 
(4) 
ENTITLEMENT
CONFUSIONS.—(A)(i) 
Among the recipients of corporate welfare, some in-
dividuals have been enlarging their collective entitle-
ments. 
(ii) This has been done through tax deductions, 
Government guaranteed loans, price supports, mili-
tary contracts and other forms of direct or indirect 
subsidy. 
(B)(i) Other individuals have swelled personal 
entitlements at the expense of taxpayers, share-
holders, employees and local communities. 
(ii) This has been done through unprecedented 
increases in salaries, stock options, deferred com-
pensation, and other luxurious benefits.
(C) Some beneficiaries of elite entitlements have 
been supporting attacks on the rights and entitle-
ments of working people, the elderly, racial or ethnic 
minorities, the jobless, the homeless, poor people, the 
disabled, welfare parents, and immigrants. 
(D) Others have been undermining collective 
bargaining rights through anti-union propaganda, 
trade promotion authority, subcontracting to non-
unionized companies, and plant closings. 
(E) Funds now deposited into the Social Secu-
rity Trust Fund are enormously attractive to those 
who would like to divert the people’s savings from 
secure Government bonds into the risk-laden stock 
and bond markets. 
(5) DEFECTIVE
GROWTH.—(A) Recent eco-
nomic growth has been below the levels needed to 
provide decent employment for a larger and more 
productive population. 
(B) As a result, many individuals have been 
forced into jobs that are underpaid, part-time, tem-
porary, irregular, or lacking in health insurance or 
other social benefits. 
(C) Many face the disappearance of career lad-
ders and an ever-present specter of lay-offs. 
(D) Consumer debt and business bankruptcy 
have been reaching historic levels.
(E) These trends have created deeper and 
longer term poverty or insecurity, with the con-
sequent loss of personal dignity and self-respect. 
(F) Among the more obvious symptoms are the 
fostering of mental depression, family breakdown, 
child or spousal abuse, and illegal forms of income. 
(G) Lesser known symptoms have been the in-
crease in the prison population, the exploitation of 
prison labor, the spread of new hate groups, church 
bombings, homophobia, and unregulated armed mili-
tias. 
(H) As a result, an insecurity plague unravels 
the social fabric of United States society. 
(6) MISLEADING
INFORMATION.—(A) While 
most individuals are flooded by information over-
loads, much of the information they receive consists 
of 
oversimplifications, 
misinformation 
or 
disinformation. 
(B) By themselves, aggregate measures of na-
tional output or income neglect their disaggregated 
components, overemphasize monetary data, ignore 
the entire world of unpaid volunteer and household 
elderly and healthcare services and care for children.
(C) Their use tends to nurture the misleading 
idea that human progress or regress can be rep-
resented by a single overall measurement. 
(D) Statistical data on employment, unemploy-
ment, prices, education, crime, and health are often 
based on outmoded concepts that have not been 
adapted to changing conditions or new capabilities 
for information collection, processing, and distribu-
tion. 
(E) Many people misuse averages and other 
measures of central tendency without attention to 
frequency distributions and other measures of dis-
persion. The use of a single measure of consumer 
prices and inflation ignores the long-established fact 
that poor individuals pay more. 
(7) LOST LEGACIES.—(A) Few people now re-
member, and many young people never learned, how 
President Franklin D. Roosevelt started planning for 
conversion from war to peace by proclaiming a ‘‘sec-
ond Bill of Rights’’. 
(B) The first principle in this long-forgotten 
document was ‘‘the right to a useful and remunera-
tive job in the industries or shops or farms or mines 
of the Nation’’.
(C) This right was backed up with seven other 
human rights: adequate income, adequate medical 
care, family farming, freedom from monopolies, de-
cent housing, Social Security, and a good education. 
(D) These ideals led to law-based entitlements 
that nurtured high wages, a successful Social Secu-
rity system, unemployment insurance, other social 
benefits, collective bargaining, higher productivity 
and the rising purchasing power needed for private 
enterprises to earn profits without Government sub-
sidy. 
(8) 
LIMITATIONS
IN
MAINSTREAM
DIS-
COURSE.—(A) During World War II and the subse-
quent conversion from war to peace, the idea of full 
employment was widely held. 
(B) The United States made a commitment to 
promote full employment when it ratified the United 
Nations Charter, including a commitment to adhere 
to articles 55(a) and 56 of that treaty. 
(C) More recently, the full employment ideal 
has been mistakenly defined as a high level of un-
used labor or regarded as impossible without exces-
sive deficits, inflation or regulations.
(D) Discussion of full employment has thus be-
come taboo in mainstream discourse.
(E) Something similar has happened with the 
ideal of decent job opportunities as a human right.
(F) In earlier decades this ideal was supported 
by most religious leaders and articulated, under 
United States leadership, in the United Nations 
Charter and in other United Nations treaties and 
declarations. 
(G) More recently, the idea of full employment 
has also become taboo in mainstream economic dis-
course. 
(9) GLOBALIZATION.—(A) Transnational cor-
porations have evolved into giant global institutions 
that control much of the world’s information, assets 
and money, while often undermining, if not entirely 
escaping, national and international defenses against 
the violation of the right to dignity and all basic 
human rights and responsibilities. 
(B) One-third of world trade is transactions 
among the various units or sub-units of the same or-
ganization. 
(C) An excessive amount of global financial 
transactions consists of speculative operations that 
create no new wealth and thereby divert resources 
from productive use.
(b) DECLARATION OF POLICY.—To help promote the 
general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to our-
selves and our posterity, the Congress hereby declares the 
following to be the policy of the Federal Government: 
(1) REAFFIRMING BASIC RIGHTS.—To reaffirm 
to public discourse the human rights proclaimed by 
President Roosevelt more than half a century earlier, 
express them in terms that have been developed in 
more recent years and, as part of the bridges to the 
twenty-first century, affirm basic rights regarding 
dignity, personal security, collective bargaining, the 
environment, information, and voting. 
(2) MORE EMPHASIS ON BASIC RESPONSIBIL-
ITIES.—(A) To help root these ideals of living wage 
jobs for all individuals in explicit recognition of per-
sonal, corporate, and Federal responsibilities. 
(B) These include the continuing responsibility 
of government of the following: 
(i) To protect the rights of individuals. 
(ii) To nurture healthy partnerships among 
Federal, State, county, and local government 
agencies, and between government agencies and 
such private sectors as nonprofit enterprises, 
labor unions, trade or fraternal associations, re-
ligious groups, and cooperatives.
(iii) To update and continuously improve 
such fundamental laws and procedures as are 
required for the protection of private property, 
the functioning of public utilities, competitive 
markets, and such limitations on market activi-
ties as are necessary to promote the common 
good by protecting employees, consumers, and 
the environment. 
(3) OVERALL
DEMOCRATIC
PLANNING.—To 
mandate under law an overall planning process of 
legislative and executive action to help provide the 
essential remedies and resources needed to attain 
and maintain conditions under which all Americans 
may freely fulfill basic human rights and responsibil-
ities, including the right to dignity and to help re-
duce poverty, inequality, and the concentrations of 
economic and political power. 
(4) CONGRESSIONAL MONITORING AND INITIA-
TIVES.—To strengthen the constitutional checks and 
balances by providing continual congressional moni-
toring of the overall planning process through the 
activities of the Joint Economic Committee and the 
requirement of open debate and voting on the An-
nual Economic Policy Resolution.
(5) COOPERATIVE
INTERNATIONAL
LEADER-
SHIP.—To work with individuals and governments of 
other nations and the United Nations and its organs 
and specialized agencies in providing leadership for 
supporting basic human rights and responsibilities 
through the provision of sufficient remedies and re-
sources. 
SEC. 3. BASIC RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. 
(a) UPDATING
THE
1944 ECONOMIC
BILL
OF 
RIGHTS.—The Congress reaffirms the responsibility of the 
Federal Government to implement and, in accordance with 
current and foreseeable trends, update the statement by 
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union 
message of January 11, 1944. The Congress therefore 
proclaims the following rights as continuing goals of 
United States public policy: 
(1) DECENT
JOBS.—(A) The right of every 
adult American to earn decent real wages, to a free 
choice among opportunities for useful and productive 
paid employment, or for self-employment. The right 
of every child not to have to work during school 
hours. 
(B) With more full employment at living wages, 
the economy will be more productive, attain higher 
levels of responsible and sustainable growth and pro-
vide more Federal revenues even without desirable 
changes in existing tax laws. 
(2) INCOME SECURITY FOR INDIVIDUALS UN-
ABLE TO WORK FOR PAY.—(A) Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the right of every adult 
American truly unable to work for pay to an ade-
quate standard of living that rises with increases in 
the wealth and productivity of the society. 
(B) With more full employment at living wages, 
more individuals will be able to earn a decent living 
without the help of welfare benefits or other transfer 
payments. 
(3) FAMILY FARMING.—(A) The right of every 
farm family to raise and sell its products at a return 
which will give it a decent living through the produc-
tion of useful food, with staged incentives for conver-
sion from unhealthy to healthier food or other prod-
ucts, with special attention to production processes 
that conserve soil, water, and energy and reduce pol-
lution. 
(B) With more full employment at living wages, 
the market for farm output will be enlarged, with 
less need for controls over output, or Federal, State, 
or local support prices or subsidies.
(4) FREEDOM
FROM
MONOPOLIES.—(A) The 
right of every business enterprise, large and small, 
to operate in freedom from domination by domestic 
and foreign monopolies and cartels, and from 
threats of undesirable mergers or leveraged buy-
outs, and the right of consumers to obtain goods and 
services at prices that are not determined by monop-
olies, cartels, and price leadership.
(B) With more full employment at living wages, 
more business enterprises will be able to earn profits 
without monopolistic controls or government welfare 
and consumers will be able to enjoy lower prices. 
(5) DECENT HOUSING.—(A) The right of every 
American to decent, safe, and sanitary housing, pub-
lic utilities, and community facilities, with adequate 
maintenance and weatherization, including large-
scale rehabilitation of millions of existing buildings, 
thereby helping to reduce overcrowding and energy 
loss and the need to build new roads, power plants, 
storm sewers, sewage, and refuse disposal. 
(B) With more full employment at living wages 
more people will be able afford adequate housing 
with less government subsidy. 
(6) ADEQUATE
HEALTH
SERVICES.—(A) The 
right of every American to such widely available
health services as may be necessary to promote 
wellness, extend both life expectancy and activity ex-
pectancy, and reduce mortality and disability 
through such non-contagious afflictions as cancer, 
heart disease, stroke, infant mortality, high blood 
pressure and obesity, and reduce the incidence of 
contagious diseases.
(B) With more full employment at living wages, 
more tax revenues will be available to help finance 
expanded health services for a larger and older pop-
ulation. 
(7) SOCIAL SECURITY.—(A) The right to ade-
quate protection from the economic fears of old age, 
disability, sickness, accident, and unemployment. 
(B) With more full employment at living wages 
and higher levels of responsible growth, more tax 
revenues will be available to help finance Social Se-
curity, medicare, medicaid, unemployment com-
pensation, and welfare payments. 
(8) EDUCATION
AND
WORK
TRAINING.—(A) 
Every individual has a right to opportunities for con-
tinuous learning through free public education, from 
pre-kindergarten and kindergarten through postsec-
ondary levels.
(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
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.
(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,
and on the rights of other stakeholders, including 
employees, consumers, and communities. 
(2) REPORTS BY STATE-CHARTERED CORPORA-
TIONS.—To help implement the recognition of the 
most responsible corporations and encourage move-
ment in this direction by other corporations, a State 
shall not be entitled to receive any Federal grants or 
enter into any Federal contracts unless the State 
has initiated a time-phased program to require that 
all State-chartered corporations submit annual re-
ports that include full and fair disclosure of informa-
tion regarding the impact of their activities in this 
or other countries on environmental quality, on child 
labor, and on the rights of other stakeholders, in-
cluding employees, consumers, and communities. 
(3) RECOGNITION OF MOST RESPONSIBLE COR-
PORATIONS.—Because some profit-seeking corpora-
tions have managed their enterprises with recogni-
tion not only of the rights of stockholders and chief 
executives, but also with responsible action toward 
environmental quality and the rights of other stake-
holders, including employees, consumers, and com-
munities, the Secretary of Labor, in cooperation 
with the Director of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, shall identify those corporations that have
gone the furthest in exercising such responsibilities 
and recommend to the President a special annual 
award to those chief executives and boards of direc-
tors that have made the greatest progress in this 
direction. 
(4) COMPUTER REGISTRATION OF CORPORATE 
CRIMES.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, 
with the assistance of business leaders and or-
ganizations, shall establish an ongoing comput-
erized registration program of all corporations 
that are found guilty of violating a Federal or 
State law. The register shall set forth—
(i) the nature of each violation; 
(ii) the names of the members of the 
board and principal officers of the corpora-
tion at the time of the violation; 
(iii) the penalties imposed; and 
(iv) the extent to which penalties were 
reduced or avoided by consent decrees, plea 
bargains, and no contest pleas or tax de-
ductions. 
(B) REGISTRATION NONCOMPLIANCE.—In 
the absence of clear and convincing evidence of 
rehabilitation, the President may deny Federal
contracts, loans, or loan guarantees to corpora-
tions that fail to comply with this section. 
(e) RESPONSIBILITY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.—
(1) POSITIVE
RESPONSIBILITIES.—Each Fed-
eral agency and commission, including the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, has the 
responsibility to plan and carry out its policies, pro-
grams, projects, and budgets in a manner designed 
to help establish and maintain conditions under 
which all Americans may freely exercise the respon-
sibilities and rights recognized in this Act. 
(2) PROHIBITION.—Each such Federal agency 
or commission shall not directly or indirectly pro-
mote economic recession, stagnation, or unemploy-
ment as a means of reducing wages, salaries, or in-
flation. 
SEC. 4. OVERALL PLANNING FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT. 
(a) GOALS.—As a part of the annual submission of 
the budget of the United States Government for the fol-
lowing fiscal year pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, 
United States Code, the President shall establish a frame-
work for such budget that meets the following goals: 
(1) QUALITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT.—
The goal of improving the quality of life and envi-
ronmental conditions in the United States by the
first decade of the 21st century, including estab-
lishing and maintaining conditions under which the 
rights and responsibilities recognized in section 3 
may be fully exercised. 
(2) GOALS
FOR
RESPONSIBLE
AND
SUSTAIN-
ABLE GROWTH.—The goal of responsible and sus-
tainable annual growth of at least 3 percent, after 
correction for price changes, in gross domestic out-
put. 
(3) REDUCING OFFICIALLY MEASURED UNEM-
PLOYMENT.—The goal of reducing officially meas-
ured unemployment to the interim goal of at least 
3 percent for individuals who have attained the age 
of 20 and at least 4 percent for individuals who have 
attained the age of 16 but have not attained the age 
of 20, as set forth in the Full Employment and Bal-
anced Growth Act of 1978. 
(4) 
SUPPORTING
INTERNATIONAL
HUMAN 
RIGHTS DECLARATIONS.—The goal of implementing 
the commitments set forth in the Employment Act 
of 1946, the Full Employment and Balanced Growth 
Act of 1978, and in treaties ratified by the United 
States, including the Charter of the United Nations, 
the Charter of the Organization of American States, 
the International Covenant on Civil and Political
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;