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.