Living Wage, Jobs For All Act

Bill: 109-hr-1050
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2005-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Access to health care
Affordable housing
Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Associations, institutions, etc.
Awards, medals, prizes
Boycott
Budget deficits
Business and social problems
Business cycles
Business ethics
Campaign funds
Capital investments
Cartels
Child labor
Children's rights
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil service retirement
Collective bargaining
Commemorations
Commerce
Competition
Conferences
Congress
Congressional budget
Congressional committees
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional voting
Consumer protection
Conversion of industries
Cooperative societies
Corporate accountability
Corporate corruption
Corporate mergers
Corporation directors
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Day care
Defense budgets
Defense industries
Depressed areas
Development credit institutions
Disabled
Economic concentration
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic security
Education
Election administration
Electric power failures
Electronic government information
Employee health benefits
Employee rights
Employment of the disabled
Energy
Energy conservation
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Executives
Families
Family farms
Family leave
Farm income
Farmers
Federal Reserve System
Federal budgets
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Free enterprise
Freedom of information
Full employment policies
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Hours of labor
Household workers
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Human rights
Income distribution
Income tax
Industrial pollution
Inflation
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Interest rates
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
International labor activities
Investment guaranty insurance
Investment of public funds
Investments
Labor and Employment
Labor disputes
Labor productivity
Labor unions
Leave of absence
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Life expectancy
Manufacturing industries
Medicaid
Medical statistics
Medicare
Mines and mineral resources
Minimum wages
Minorities
Monetary policy
Monopolies
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational health and safety
Occupational retraining
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parent and child
Part-time employment
Pension funds
Pollution
Pollution control
Potable water
Poverty
Presidential messages
Preventive medicine
Price fixing
Prices
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public corruption
Public debt
Public service employment
Public utilities
Punishment
Quality of life
Quality of work life
Racism
Research
Residential rehabilitation
Restrictive trade practices
Right of property
Roosevelt Administration
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-employed
Sex discrimination
Small business
Social Welfare
Soil conservation
Standard of living
Student employment
Sustainable development
Tax expenditures
Taxation
Torture
Transportation and Public Works
Treaties
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
United Nations
Violence
Volunteer workers
Voting
Voting machines
Voting rights
Wages
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Wealth
White collar crime
Women
Women's rights
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 
A Living Wage, Jobs for All Act - Declares that the Congress affirms the basic economic rights and responsibilities under the 1944 "Economic Bill of Rights," while updating and extending it to include: (1) certain rights to decent jobs, income security for individuals unable to work for pay, a decent living for farm families, freedom from monopolies, decent housing, adequate health services, Social Security in old age, sickness, accidental injury, and unemployment, and education and work training; and (2) certain other rights relating to collective bargaining, a safe working environment, information on trends in pollution sources and products and processes that affect the well-being of workers throughout the world, voting and campaigning, and personal security.
 
Requires corporations registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose fully in annual reports the impact of their activities on environmental quality and on the rights of other stakeholders, including employees, consumers, and communities. Requires each State to require all State-chartered corporations to submit such annual reports. 
Directs the Attorney General to establish a computerized registration program of all corporations found guilty of violating a Federal or State law. Authorizes the President to deny Federal contracts, loans, or loan guarantees to non-compliant corporations.
Requires Federal agencies and commissions, including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, to help establish and maintain conditions under which all adult Americans may freely exercise the economic rights specified in 1944 and in this Act. Prohibits Federal agencies or commissions from promoting recession, stagnation, or unemployment to reduce wages or inflation.
Directs the President to establish a full employment framework for the annual budget submitted to the Congress that meets specified goals for: (1) quality of life and environment; (2) responsible, sustainable growth; (3) unemployment reduction; and (4) human rights. 
Requires the Joint Economic Committee to oversee actions under this Act and submit an annual Concurrent Resolution on Economic Policy setting forth its proposed employment goals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 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 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 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 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 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 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 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 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 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 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House