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    Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job
    Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job
    Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job
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    Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right To A Job

    By William Quigley

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    Across the United States tens of millions of people are working forty or more hours a week...and living in poverty. This is surprising in a country where politicians promise that anyone who does their share, and works hard, will get ahead. In Ending Poverty As We Know It, William Quigley argues that it is time to make good on that promise by adding to the Constitution language that insures those who want to work can do so—and at a wage that enables them to afford reasonable shelter, clothing, and food.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTemple University Press
    Release dateOct 23, 2008
    ISBN9781592137770
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