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Freedom Budget for all Americans and Economic Equality

Journal of Economic and Social Thought

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Title Freedom Budget for all Americans and Economic Equality
 
Creator BELTRAMINI, Enrico; Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Notre Dame de Namur University 1500 Ralston Avenue, Belmont CA 94002 United States mobile +1 (650) 430-0104
 
Subject Freedom budget, Philip Randolph; Johnson administration; Economic equality.
B29; B31; B59.
 
Description Abstract. The Freedom Budget for All Americans, written under the supervision of Bayard Rustin and released in 1966 by the A. Philip Randolph Institute, was a well developed policy program to secure full economic citizenship for all Americans thanks to an unprecedented government investment. The program challenged the classic definition of civil rights and linked increased government spending to economic justice.  It never earned traction and remained at the margins of historical memory by the end of the Johnson Presidency. The recent literature on the Freedom Budget focuses on its ideological milieu and political implications and identifies the strategic errors in coalition building as the main cause of the Freedom Budget defeat. This paper concentrates on a specific element of the plan, the notion of economic equality, and states that the disagreement between radicals and liberals on such a notion ultimately caused the undoing of the coalition.Keywords. Freedom Budget, Philip Randolph, Johnson Administration, economic equality.JEL. B29, B31, B59.
 
Publisher Journal of Economic and Social Thought
Journal of Economic and Social Thought
 
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Date 2017-03-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/1213
10.1453/jest.v4i1.1213
 
Source Journal of Economic and Social Thought; Vol 4, No 1 (2017): March; 55-66
Journal of Economic and Social Thought; Vol 4, No 1 (2017): March; 55-66
2149-0422
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/1213/1207
 
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