Rebuild America Solving the Economic Crisis Through Civic Works [Hardcover]

In Obama's America public works is once again a part of the national dialogue. Today it is offered as a solution to the economic downturn and to the public infrastructure crisis. This timely book examines the reasons for the economic crisis facing Main Street, and connects them to why the nation has structurally deficient bridges, weak levees, poorly maintained dams, and dilapidated schools. The book goes on to analyse the history of US public works, updating lessons from the New Deal, to understand the most effective way to organise a modern US civic works project, based on a civic works pilot project for the Gulf Coast. One chapter features new contributions by Howard Zinn, Angela Glover Blackwell, and other leading scholars and thinkers weighing in on how an US civic works project might solve our economic, infrastructure, and environmental crises.Preface Chapter 1: The Crisis in America Chapter 2: Public Works: An American Solution Chapter 3: The Improbable History of the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project Chapter 4: Civic Works for a Twenty-First-Century New Deal Chapter 5: The Experts Weigh in on Civic Works Chapter 6: An Economic Bill of Rights Appendixes Appendix 1: Full Text of HR 4048 Appendix 2: Action Alert: Senate Call-In Campaign Appendix 3: Draft of Executive Order Appendix 4: New Orleans City Council Resolution Appendix 5: Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign Interfaith Statement Supporting Human Rights in Gulf Coast Recory Is a Moral Priority Appendix 6: Suggested Changes for Revised Bill and Executive Order Notes Credits Index About the AuthorProgressives will applaud the call for federally run employment programs to put millions to work and rebuild America. & Policy wonks, political scientists, and New Deal fans will love this book.
Library Journal

In Rebuild America, Scott Myers-Lipton convincingly lays out the case for a public works offensive, and also points to the civic value of engineering an ecol£9