Economic Security for All:
How To End Poverty In The United States

• Chapter I: A Vision of a New Economy
• Chapter II: Five Reasons To Establish Economic Security
  • A. Improve the Quality of Life for All
  • B. Reduce Economic Anxieties
  • C. Improve Public Safety
  • D. Diminish Racism
  • E. Improve Social Relations in General

• Chapter III: Four More Reasons to Establish Economic Security
  • A. Improve Working Conditions and Stimulate the Economy
  • B. Eliminate the Hardships of Poverty
  • C. Facilitate Positive and Cultural Change
  • D. Do the Right Thing

• Chapter IV: Economic Insecurity Today
  • A. The Official Definition of Poverty
  • B. The History of Defining Poverty
  • C. The Officially Poor
  • D. A More Realistic Definition of Poverty
  • E. Description of the Truly Poor
  • F. Underemployment

• Chapter V: Wealth Without Work
  • A. Wealth Today
  • B. The High Life
  • C. Ending Poverty

• Chapter VI: Poverty's History
  • A. Pre-Industrial Societies
  • B. Pre-Colonial North America
  • C. Post-Colonial United States
  • D. From the Civil War to the Great Depression
  • E. The New Deal and the Post War Boom
  • F. 1973: The Squeeze Begins
  • G. The Rich Get Richer

• Chapter VII: Keeping the Lid On
  • A. The Control of Land
  • B. Sharing Land-When Expedient
  • C. Goverment of the Few, For the Few
  • D. Divide and Conquer
  • E. Racism
  • F. Co-optataion, or "Selling Out"
  • G. Police Power
  • H. Understating the Problem

• Chapter VIII: Wall Street Rules
  • A. The Power of the Fed and the Creditor Class
    • 1. The Threat of Inflation
    • 2. Driving Down Inflation
    • 3. How the Fed Operates
    • 4. The Power of the Creditor Class
    • 5. "Wall Steet vs. Main Street
    • 6. The Clinton Cave-in
  • B. The Trauma of 1973
  • C. The Carter-Reagan Revolution

• Chapter IX: Same Game, Different Names
  • A. The System
  • B. The Will to Power
  • C. Depoliticize the People
  • D. Current Conditions

• Chapter X: Personal and Social Transformation
  • A. The Personal
    • 1. Overcoming Predjudice
    • 2. Overcoming Arrogance
    • 3. Overcoming the Lust for Power
    • 4. Affirming Self-Determination
    • 5. Overcoming Greed and Materializm
    • 6. Dealing with Anger
    • 7. Practicing Self-Learning
    • 8. Engaging in Right Action
  • B. The Social

• Chapter XI: Personal and Social Transformation
  • A. The Personal is Political
  • B. Non-violence
  • C. Fundamental Change
  • D. Dramatic Change
  • E. Democratic, Supportive Organizations
  • F. Decentalized, Innovative Methods
  • G. Unifying the Movement
  • H. A 15-Step Strategy to Establish Economic Security
  • I. Summary

• Chapter XII: The National Economic Security Program

• Chapter XIII: Excuses and More Excuses
  • A. Blaming the Poor
  • B. "Welfare Dependency"
  • C. Trashing the Schools
  • D. The Medical Model of Mental Illness
  • E. Blaming the Culture

• Chapter XIV: Runaway Inflation and Other Myths
  • A. "The Goverment Can't Do Anything"
  • B. Public Employee Unions and "Fiscal Submission"
  • C. The Inflation Myth
    • 1. The Party Line
    • 2. The Effects of Inflation
    • 3. The Historical Record
    • 4. Some Common Sense About Inflation
    • 5. Controlling Inflation
    • 6. First Things First
  • D. The Myth of "Economic Growth"
  • E. Another Myth: Security Will Destroy Motivation

• Chapter XV: Past Proposals Compared
  • A. Historical Background
  • B. Past Efforts to End Poverty in The United States
    • 1. The Levelers
    • 2. The 1800's
    • 3. The New Deal
    • 4. The War on Poverty
    • 5. Poor People's Campaign

• Chapter XVI: Current Proposals Considered
  • A. Targeted Programs
  • B. Proposals for Reducing Poverty
    • 1. Clinton's Secret War on Poverty
    • 2. More Welfare
    • 3. The Common Sense Budget
    • 4. The Campaign for New Priorities
    • 5. Full Employment Proposals
    • 6. Common Agenda Coalition
    • 7. The Alliance
    • 8. Job Bills
  • C. Proposals for Ending Poverty
    • 1. Broad Affirmations
    • 2. Specific Proposals
      • a. Citizen's Budget Campaign
      • b. More Welfare - Again

Part Five: Epilogue

• Chapter XVII: Beyond Poverty

Index