Living Wage, Jobs For All Act
Latest action · Jun 5, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 14, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
A Living Wage, Jobs for All Act - Declares that 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 (SEC) 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 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.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 14, 2008 to Jul 14, 2008.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Mar 14, 2008 | |
| D-MO | Russ Carnahan | Mar 14, 2008 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Apr 2, 2008 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Apr 3, 2008 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Apr 8, 2008 | |
| D-IL | Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. | Apr 8, 2008 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | Apr 8, 2008 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Apr 14, 2008 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Apr 14, 2008 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Apr 15, 2008 | |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Apr 15, 2008 | |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Apr 15, 2008 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Apr 15, 2008 | |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Apr 22, 2008 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | May 6, 2008 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 5, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Mar 14, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
- Feb 14, 2007Introduced in House
- Feb 14, 2007Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- 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
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Election administration
- Electric power failures
- Electronic government information
- Employee health benefits
- Employee rights
- Employment of the disabled
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Executives
- Families
- Family farms
- Family leave
- Farm income
- Farmers
- Federal budgets
- Federal Reserve System
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Foreign loans
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Free enterprise
- Freedom of information
- Full employment policies
- Fund raising
- Government contractors
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- 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 corruption
- Public debt
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- 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 conservation
- Water Resources Development
- Wealth
- White collar crime
- Women
- Women's rights
- Working poor
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 14, 2007Introduced in House
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